On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 10:20:19AM -0400, David Bremner wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> writes: > > > It shouldn't be enough for a package to have its worst bugs fixed like > > FTBFS or > > crashes when it gets shipped with a release. Packages that are being > > shipped with > > a release should also be properly maintained or not shipped at all. > > For context, there are currently 929 packages maintained by > packa...@qa.debian.org. That doesn't count packages that have an > inactive maintainer, which is more challenging to quantify.
Orphaned packages are nowhere as bad -- you can fix anything. It's packages that are nominally maintained which see no updates but for RC bugs. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ An imaginary friend squared is a real enemy. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
