New 'maint' facet for Debtags

Andreas Tille tillea at rki.de
Mon Sep 17 12:07:47 UTC 2007


On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Enrico Zini wrote:

> Tag: maint::fringe
> Description: Fringe package (FIXME)
> The maintainer declared this to be a fringe package.
> .
> (TODO: define what this practically means)
> .
> (from IRC) more users == greater level of peer review and peer support?
> (maintainers can enter this information in debian/control and I can scan it using Mole)
>
> Tag: maint::unmaintained-upstream
> Description: Unmaintained upstream
> The package is not maintained anymore by its upstream developers.
> .
> Debian still carries on basic maintenance, but no new upstream versions of the
> package are to be expected.
> (maintainers can enter this information in debian/control and I can scan it using Mole)

I'd regard this as very reasonable information.  Is there any syntax how
maintainers can add this to debian/control?

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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