Re: Maintaining potentially orphaned packages in Debian Commons team

Hello Andreas,

thank you very much for picking up this topic. I am just an upstream 
maintainer
but also in high interest in the Debian packaging process and 
communication
between Debian and upstream.

Am 05.06.2026 14:30 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> One possible solution to consider would be to move the package to 
> Debian
> Commons maintenance,

Interesting. I was not aware of this option.

> Possible criteria might include:
> 
>   * no maintainer upload for N years (combined with unsuccessful 
> contact
>     attempts)

This measures the timespan between "now" and the last upload. Would it 
be
more meaningful to measure the time since the last upstream release that
has not yet been uploaded?

Alternativly, one could measure the time since the last merge request or
patch that has not yet been incorporated into an upload.

Kind regards
Christian Buhtz