Re: Maintaining potentially orphaned packages in Debian Commons team

Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jun 06, 2026 at 02:43:24PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
>> 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? 

The MIA process already orphans packages of MIA people.

This doesn't cover everything.

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