Re: Maintaining potentially orphaned packages in Debian Commons team

On Sat, Jun 06, 2026 at 05:12:30PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>For clucene-core we have a maintainer who has not uploaded in nearly ten
>>years, contact attempts that went unanswered, repeated NMUs, and pending
>>fixes from contributors. Yet, as far as I understand, there is currently
>>no established procedure that would allow the package to become formally
>>orphaned without active involvement from the maintainer.
>>
>>This is exactly the gap I am trying to discuss. If we believes that such
>>packages should become formally orphaned rather than move to Debian
>>Commons, what is the practical path to achieve that?
>
>What am I missing here? This sounds like a classic example of
>something that normally gets done with MIA processing.

There were two maintainers, and only one is formally MIA. The other one, as 
Andreas wrote, "was asked about interest to become Maintainer four years ago with no response".

One doesn't need to ask an "Uploader" to become a 
"Maintainer" though, as those fields have identical meanings, so the package 
currently is maintained by Daniel Glassey.

Now, Daniel has last uploaded the package in 2007, but that's a separate 
question that needs to be litigated separately if we want to follow the 
established processes!


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