Re: Maintaining potentially orphaned packages in Debian Commons team

[email protected] writes:


>> 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?

that would not help for packages with few upstream releases -- it should
be about the debian package status, not upstream

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

not every MRs/patch is "ready", part of maintenance is saying no (or:
needs more work first)