On 6/22/19 11:26 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Saturday 2019-06-22 05:08, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 6/21/19 8:35 PM, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
if nobody wants to maintain VDR and the plugins in Factory and Leap, I'm going to file drop requests for it on Fr 21. Jun 20:00 UTC 2019
Aren't 90 minutes a bit of a short notice for removing a package?
There is no requirement to wait, let alone announce deletion at all.
What's the point of making such an announcement with a deadline then? That makes no sense. If you announce that you are no longer interested in maintaining a package, you should offer it up for adoption and see if someone else is willing to pick it up.
"Maintainer decides", just like in Debian (where the concept is practiced even stronger).
How is it stronger in Debian when the common practice in Debian is to orphan a package and offer it up for adoption? I have been involved in Debian for 10+ years but I have never heard that maintainers filed a removal bug the moment they dropped their package. That's rather uncommon. Packages in Debian are usually only removed from unstable when upstream is dead or the package has been in a very bad shape for a long time with no one willing to pick it up for maintenance. Adrian