Debian Bug report logs - #327669
RM: gwydion-dylan-sgml -- RoQA; old, unused, rc-buggy

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@djpig.de>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: very old package with RC bugs, should this be removed?

Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:46:20 +0200

Package: gwydion-dylan-sgml
Version: 0.1-2
Severity: serious

Hi.

During the Debian QA meeting hold during Sept. 09th till 11th, we
begun to go through the list of the oldest packages in Debian that are
not in testing (http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/oldest.html) to
search for packages that should be either orphaned or removed
completly from Debian (unstable and testing) since they have been
obviously neglected by their maintainer.

Your package did show up on this list and we propose to remove the package.

This usually means that your package matched some of the following criteria:

      [1] Your packages has not had an upload for more than two years

      [2] has one or more RC bugs with no answer from the maintainer (**)

      [3] the state of your packages in general seems to indicate that
      you might be MIA

      [4] (if we propose a removal) it shows in popcon as having less
          than 100 users with the package installed.

      [5] the package was not released with sarge

and at least ([1] and ( [2] or [3] or [4] or [5] )) was true.

(**) The maintainer not answering to RC bugs refers to bugs filed more
than one month before the time the check was performed.

In your case the package is older than 2.5 years, you didn't respond
to the RC bug for over one year, and the package was never released in
a stable release.

After 7 days without answer from you (the maintainer) we will reassign
this bug to either WNPP (in case we propose to orphan it) or
ftp.debian.org (in case we propose to remove it).

The package will need an upload or an explanation for this action not
to proceed.

Please do *not* upload a package just to get off this list - it won't
help the package at all. Maintainers should be responsive and feel
responsible for their packages without needing other people to force
them to do work. Sometimes, finding a new maintainer or even removing
the package completly from the archive is better for Debian's users.

Thanks!
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>

Message #16 received at 327669-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian Archive Maintenance <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 327669-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: gwydion-dylan-sgml@packages.debian.org, gwydion-dylan-sgml@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#327669: fixed

Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:11:31 -0700

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

gwydion-dylan-doc-html |      0.1-2 | all
gwydion-dylan-sgml |      0.1-2 | source, all

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.

Packages are never removed from testing by hand.  Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems.

Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
removed from the Bug Tracking System.  Please check all open bugs and
close them or re-assign them to another package if the removed package
was superseded by another one.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 327669@bugs.debian.org.

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