<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/12/14 Attila Csipa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maemo@csipa.in.rs">maemo@csipa.in.rs</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 14-Dec-11 03:00, Roberto Colistete Jr. wrote:<br>
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This have been talked about, but stopped at a question - do you really<br>
want orphaned packages published in Extras ? If a problem surfaces or a<br>
bug gets reported, there is nobody to take care of it, and removal can<br>
get really tricky (who gets final say as how broken it has to be to ask<br>
Niels to remove it, what if there are other packages depending on the<br>
orphaned one, etc).<br>
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My opinion : if the orphaned package is in extras-testing for a long<br>
time (1 month or more) and has a lot of positive votes (12, 2x the 6<br>
needed to promotion), then it is reasonable that it is stable and well<br>
tested. So it should be promoted to extras by some Maemo admin member.<br>
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Two problems:<br>
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1. The apps might have been tested on older versions of dependencies, which have been superseeded in the meantime. For example I have deprecated QtMobility 1.1, so it doesn't matter how well tested it was, that version of mobility is no longer available. Ditto for, say, things that depend on the kernel - it might work on one (old) version of the power kernel, but not another, etc.<br>
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2. It's not about promoting, it's about dealing with it when it's already in Extras and it goes wrong (and things do go wrong). If it's an orphaned package, there is a lack final authority who can (from a technical perspective) say what should be done, should it be a known issue, should it be removed, can someone take over, etc, etc. This is already a problem in Extras, it's just not too widespread (partially because the orphaned packages that could cause problem are stuck in testing) so we are in practice ignoring it.<br>
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Best regards,<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Attila Csipa</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>Is it possible to transfer the maintainance for orphaned packages to other, still active, developers?<br>If so, I would volunteer myself for maintainance of some orphaned packages.<br>
<br>Nicolai<br>