On 9 Apr 1998, Jim Pick wrote: > > Brian Bassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > After both Manoj Srivastava and Bob Hilliard pointed out to me the faults > > in using the Maintainers file for determining the number of maintainers, I > > have decided to use the Debian PGP keyring. After deleting duplicate keys, > > the keyring says that there are 313 developers, making Q 8.85 and K 5. > > > > Brian > > You know what would be cool - if the www.debian.org homepage had a > running count of the number of maintainers! > > That's Debian's biggest selling point, as far as I'm concerned.
What happens with a public key if a maintainer orphans all his/her packages and leaves the project? Is it kept in the keyring or is it removed? If it isn't removed the numbers would be too high, IMO. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]