Subject: Re: Bug#3443: mechanism for dealing with orphan packages

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 96 02:36 BST

Bill Mitchell writes ("Bug#3443: mechanism for dealing with orphan packages"):
...
> Regardless of whether or not the dialog package becomes orphan,
> Debian needs a better mechanism for dealing with orphan packages.

We already have one.

> Advertising a maintainer who has abandoned the package as the
> current maintainer, and assigning bug reports to the last maintainer
> of record isn't the right answer.

This isn't what happens.  If and when the people who maintain the
overrides file on master get told to do so we'll mark packages as
orphaned, and then bug reports will get filed appropriately.

I'm closing this report.

Ian.