[Pkg-octave-devel] Package removals

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> [2012-03-15 18:19]:

> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 02:19:37PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > 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.

Fair enough.  It would be great if you can complete the list of
candidates for removal, such that we know exactly on which packages we
should work until the wheezy freeze. 

A subsidiary question: do you know whether there are OF packages that
have never been in Debian before and that should absolutely get in?

Rafael