Unmaintained Packages in universe, was: Tor Packages

Reinhard Tartler siretart at ubuntu.com
Tue Oct 2 12:59:02 BST 2007


"Jorge O. Castro" <jorge at ubuntu.com> writes:

> Is there a list some place of packages that are not actively
> maintained?

I think it would perhaps be easier to count packages, that are actively
maintained.

Perhaps you can correlate the number of non-autosync uploads with the
bugnumers to get a guess of "unmaintained packages"?

> Perhaps we could correlate that with popcon data and find some low
> hanging fruit; I could then approach upstreams and we could work out
> problems before it gets to the "bad reputation for upstreams" stage.
>
> Since it's a small number of packages this could be something I could
> track regularly.

Thanks for volunteering for this. Sounds very reasonable and helpful to
me!


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