Bug#933110: pkg-components: No upstream maintainer ⇒ unsuitable for Bullseye

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Thu Aug 20 09:34:01 BST 2020


On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 16:29:23 -0300, intrigeri at debian.org wrote:
> The Debian Perl group has, somewhat unwillingly, inherited the role of
> upstream maintainer for this native package, when its original author
> stopped taking care of it. We don't feel we're in a good position to
> wear this hat and would rather not to.
> 
> Therefore, we decided at the pkg-perl BoF today at DebConf that we
> don't want this package to be included in Bullseye, unless someone
> else steps up and becomes its upstream maintainer.

It's been over a year and this doesn't seem to have happened.

> I'll file bugs against all reverse-dependencies to alert their
> maintainer about this situation.

Should the bugs against rdeps be escalated to serious at this point,
potentially triggering autoremovals?

    smcv



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