Re: Maintaining potentially orphaned packages in Debian Commons team

Peter Pentchev <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 03:49:09PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 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.

...so orphaning + a QA upload...

G'luck,
Peter

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