[maemo-developers] R: promotion to extras

[From: Attila Csipa]

On 12/12/2011 08:19 PM, emme750 at gmail.com wrote:
> You should also solve the problem of those applications that are ready to be promoted, but the maintainer is no longer "alive".
> For example, after one month of the release, the promotion may become automatic, or we should enable Supertester to do this.
>

This have been talked about, but stopped at a question - do you really 
want orphaned packages published in Extras ? If a problem surfaces or a 
bug gets reported, there is nobody to take care of it, and removal can 
get really tricky (who gets final say as how broken it has to be to ask 
Niels to remove it, what if there are other packages depending on the 
orphaned one, etc).


Best regards,
Attila Csipa