Re: Maintaining potentially orphaned packages in Debian Commons team

Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
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Quoting Aurélien COUDERC (2026-06-05 15:25:48)
> Le 5 juin 2026 14:30:35 GMT+02:00, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> a écrit :
> >I'd like to propose some procedure for packages that appear to lack
> >active maintenance, but where no formal orphaning has taken place.
> 
> how would that be different from the existing package salvaging procedure already documented at [1][2] ?

As I understand it, salvaging is a process to adopt a package, whereas
this seems to be an interest in revoking a maintainer *without*
adoption.

 - Jonas

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