On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 09:48 +1200, Michael J. Knox wrote: > He said that is up to the debian developer as to how long they want to > maintain the package. He went on to say that as long as the application > function and was free from release critical bugs, then debian will > continue to ship it. He also said, that if a upstream vendor is not > maintaining the application anymore (or seems not to be) then its up to > the packager to fix bugs etc. > > I am not sure if other agree on that approach or not. +1 Y'all are over-thinking this. The upstream status of a package simply doesn't matter. What matters is if it is maintained in *extras*. If a packager wants to spend their time and energy maintaining a package that's abandoned upstream, that's their business. There's no reason to remove a package simply because its abandoned upstream. All that matters is that the package continues to meet the requirements that *any* package has. If a package has broken deps, or is unusably buggy, it should be pulled from the repos, no matter what the upstream status of the package is.
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