Re: Maintaining potentially orphaned packages in Debian Commons team

Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]> writes:

> 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".


I must be missing something: surely this other maintainer should then be
removed from the package by the MIA team?