On Thu, 2018-01-11 at 09:25 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On 10.01.2018 23:00, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
If there is no explicit package maintainer assigned, the project maintainers are the designated maintainers of the packages therein.
Well, then what's the problem of fortune and recode that Knurpht mentioned? By that definition, they have a maintainer and don't need to be dropped.
The person that did the work on recode decided not to do it anymore.. and rightly so wants it dropped. Until just recently, only one person mentioned that he wants to take it over. recode is largely unmaintained by upstream, but CVEs won't stop for that. So whoever decides to take on maintainership of that package has to be aware of that. And keeping recode just for fortune sounds like an overkill (especially taking into account that Jan created a submission for recode to get rid of the recode dependency). Add to that that I also drop packages from TW that have a maintainer assigned, but where the maintainer fails to actually fix packages for a long time. Is there such a strong sentiment for recode? Really? Cheers Dominique