2010/11/17 Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>:
On 17/11/10 22:45, Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:19:40 -0500 schrieb Kaiting Chen<kaitocracy@gmail.com>:
I think it's kind of hard for me to see why I should maintain a package that's already been discarded by its developer. In my opinion such packages should be moved to [unsupported] where the one more two people who might want to use them can simply build them themselves.
Why should those packages be removed from the repos as long as they are running? That doesn't make sense. And such packages doesn't make any work for the developers. They can just be staying in the repos without doing any harm like e.g. eboard.
Because there is no-one in charge of any bug reports, monitoring security issues, rebuilding the package for soname bumps... Packages without a maintainer do cause all other devs needless work.
Why not move them to a "graveyard" repo, that would be called [unmaintained]. It would contain binary packages that belonged formerly to [community] but are explicitly not maintained anymore. That would allow people who use them to still have binary packages, until it doesn't work anymore (then someone files an out-of-date notice and the package has to be deleted). -- Rémy.