[Pkg-octave-devel] Package removals

[Thomas Weber]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 02:19:37PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> [2012-03-14 22:14]:
> 
> > I think we should drop the following packages (more to come later):
> > 
> > 	irsa
> > 	nlwing2
> > 	outliers
> > 	symband
> > 
> > Reason in every case: unmaintained upstream.
> 
> Agreed.  Add missing-functions to the list, please.
> 
> Just one question: what is your criterion to decide that a package is
> unmaintained upstream?

	svn log --limit 10
and then I look at the commit message. Maintainer fields are useless, as
people will be listed there long after having vanished from the list. If
I'm not sure I check whether the package has any unit tests, so that we
can at least be sure that it doesn't break and we do not notice it for
years.

In theory, we might remove a package that is feature-complete and
therefor doesn't have new commits; nlwing2 might actually be such a
package, but it's so specialiced that I think every minute spent on
packaging it is better spent on more general packages.

	Thomas