Soon to be marked dead packages

Mon Oct 9 19:03:31 UTC 2006

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 13:12 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Ville Skytt? (ville.skytta at iki.fi) said: 
> > It was still listed as orphaned in Extras/OrphanedPackages in the Wiki
> > and owners.list in CVS - I've fixed them.
> > 
> > Everyone, if you claim something from the orphaned list, don't just push
> > rebuilds.  Make sure you've updated Extras/OrphanedPackages in Wiki
> > *and* owners.list in CVS.
> 
> How much work would it be to automate this?

AFAIU, it's (the package database) already being worked on.  Someone
more familiar with it could perhaps post some estimates here?