Re: Bug#879296: Maintaining potentially orphaned packages in Debian Commons team

On Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 06:36:30PM +0500, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2026 at 03:10:49PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > Why is the orphaning process not completed on these packages?
> > 
> > That's the important question needing to be answered. Everything else
> > might be indicative, and probably these packages are important - but
> > why is the process that we have not working?
> 
> Are you asking about mass-orphaning via the MIA team or is there another
> process I've forgot about?

Maybe I should have asked what the intention of the plan here is in 
the first place. It seemed to me that the subject was packages that, 
to quote:

| appear to lack
| active maintenance, but where no formal orphaning has taken place

So either they need orphaning or salvaging.

I don't understand why we need yet another thing.

Chris