Re: Maintaining potentially orphaned packages in Debian Commons team

Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian-gM/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Andreas Tille <[email protected]> writes:

> However, that experience also reinforced my impression that we currently
> lack a generally accepted process for dealing with packages that appear
> to have no active maintenance but are not formally orphaned.

sorry if this is a stupid question: instead of a new process, why not
propose changing the existing MIA process to forceably orphan such
packages? then the interested poeple (which can include the inactive
maintainer/uploader) can adopt it?
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