Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> Every single package that failed to build from source and that people
> refused to see orphaned and retired when it was pointed out that they are
> in fact not really maintained ?

As I have already mentioned more than once when the FTBFS policy has been 
discussed, a failure to build from source is not necessarily a fatal bug. If 
the package has no broken dependencies and needs no changes, there is no 
actual need to rebuild the package. Hence, I find it unfair to call packages 
"not really maintained" just because a FTBFS was not fixed immediately. 
(Even the policy allows for 6+ months to fix FTBFS bugs.)

I prefer spending my time on making actual user-visible improvements to my 
packages rather than on fixing yet another mass FTBFS caused by a rude 
incompatible change done in some other package.

        Kevin Kofler
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