Hi Andreas, hi all,
[I'm not subscribed to d-d, the long discussions on d-p are enough for my inbox ;-), so please address me directly if I should read your reply] Am 16.03.22 um 14:11 schrieb Andreas Tille:
I'm not sure whether there are any PalmPilot devices out there. At
Yes, there are still such devices out there.
least the actual *votes* in popcon[1] is down to zero now. The package
I would not trust popcorn at all. It is disabled at installation by default and even I does not use it. There is no *real* data base for package usage out there IMO. Even if we would have real usage count, IMO it should not be a rule to keep a package or remove it. We already have mechanism to exclude packages with serious issue from releases. For packages that are not part of one or several releases, we could ask the maintainer to fix or remove, that would be fair.
was not uploaded by its maintainer for >10 years.
Yes, because upstream development was finished and packaging was working so far. No need for new uploads IMO.
It received an NMU by Adrian Bunk (in CC as well):
I thanked Adrian for stepping in, but had in on my list, too. (Low prio, because I didn't see the "serious" on this "policy issue")
Do we have any means to get rid of packages that should be rather removed from the distribution than draining resources.
If the package was not part of one or two releases and maintainer (or any other dev) have no interest to fix it, I would agree. If you use the popcorn count to decide this I would strongly disagree. Best regards, Erik
