[ATTN Fabio Bonelli] removal of galeon from Debian?

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Thu Mar 4 12:21:49 UTC 2010


On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 07:54:18PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Hi Fabio,
> 
> The Debian MIA team recently contacted me about your status in Debian.
> galeon has been maintained by NMUs since mid 2009. At this point galeon
> remains quite popular in Debian (~1000 popcon votes) despite being very
> much dead upstream and fairly dead in Debian.
> 
> Do you still intend to maintain galeon within Debian? Please respond
> ASAP.
> 
> If I don't hear from you by March 23rd 2010, I will presume that you are
> MIA and that you don't intend to maintain galeon. Since I don't intend
> to maintain galeon either (despite it currently being my primary
> browser), I will make an upload fixing some of the easy-to-fix issues
> and officially orphaning the package. If no-one steps up to maintain it
> by DebConf10, I'll request removal from the archive. I think that time
> period is appropriate, given its popularity. I'll probably blog about
> the orphaning and proposed removal too.

Note he already didn't reply to 20100121083227.GA28904 at glandium.org,
which was sent more than a month ago.

Mike



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