orphaning gnome-volume-manager

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 06:39:46PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> On Tue November 25 2008, Denis Leroy wrote:
> 
> > Although I agree with Patrice, it seems more natural to orphan it and
> > let Darwin's law do its job...
> 
> But who will after which timeframe retire the package? The current best 
> practices are to retire packages that are considered not to be useful anymore 
> to make this obvious for other interested maintainers. E.g. then the 
> package's devel CVS directory will contain a dead.package file that explains 
> why it is not useful anymore. If a package is only orphaned, then this means, 
> that there is currently nobody available that want's to maintain the package, 
> but the package would still be useful.

A package should only be retired if it is orphaned. For example, in that
case, if nobody answers within a reasonable time frame (2 weeks?), it could 
be retired in addition to being orphaned, and obsoleted by nautilus.

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Pat