reassign 540925 debbugs retitle 540925 indicate that no maintianer means that the package doesn't exist anymore summary 540925 0 severity 540925 minor thanks
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Stéphane Blondon wrote: > Of course, there is an error message but it's little bit confusing: > ''There is no maintainer for this_package_does_not_exist. Please do > not report new bugs against this package. If there is no maintainer for a package, this means that the package may not exist. I'll tweak the verbiage of this to indicate that the package no longer exists (or never existed in the first place). > There is no record of the this_package_does_not_exist package, and no > bugs have been filed against it." > > The first sentence fits more orphan package, the second one is > right. Both of them are correct, actually. Orphaned packages are maintained by the QA team. I'll tweak the verbiage of this eventually. Don Armstrong -- A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. -- Bill Vaughan http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
