Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Should "orphan" package without any "stable" version be stabilized?

[Pacho Ramos]

El jue, 24-06-2010 a las 17:44 +0200, Christian Faulhammer escribió:
> Hi,
>
> Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>:
> > app-office/ledger doesn't have any maintainer and has no stable
> > version, also, seems that no other app requires this to be
> > stabilized. I would prefer to keep this in testing until a maintainer
> > really maintains it downstream, but I am not sure if there is already
> > some policy on this :-/
>
>  Generally it should not be stabilised.  But based on common sense
>  (simple program, no dependencies), you could do it.
>
> V-Li
>

OK, I was doubtful because when a package lacks maintainer, maybe it's
not fully tested and some bugs could be opened and, then, rarely fixed
(as they would be assigned to maintainer-needed). On the other hand, I
would hope that preserving those packages in "testing", their users
wouldn't expect it to be as "stable" and "properly maintained" as a
package marked "stable".