Dear Fesco: Orphan package process needs work

[Kushal Das]

Where can I find a list of the orphaned packages ?

On 10/6/06, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 16:06 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> > We had people ready to step up beforehand.  I had volunteered, and
> > perhaps others.  But david said he had it, so it was left alone.
> >
>  ...
> >
> > There was fair warning, but nothing anyone can do if the owner is
> > holding a package hostage.  David, the owner, said he would do it, and
> > didn't.  And then it was dropped.  That's broken.
>
> The reason this doesn't happen in Core is because we tend not to be so
> possessive about our packages. With a few highly-strung exceptions, you
> can generally just commit sensible fixes to any package which needs them
> and the maintainer will be happy that you helped them out. It's a _team_
> effort.
>
> Extras seems to lack that ethos, and people get massively proprietorial
> about their packages. And _that_, I think, is the root of the problem
> here.
>
> David is busy. He meant to fix it up, but he just didn't get round to it
> -- I can sympathise with that. But if this package had been in Core,
> someone else would have done it.
>
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