Dealing with Dormant Packages: Ensuring Debian’s High Standards

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Looks at packages in Debian that have had no uploads for a long time and whose maintainers do not respond to bug reports. Names the existing mechanisms—MIA (Missing In Action), ITS (Intent to Salvage), and NMUs (Non‑Maintainer Uploads)—and discusses evaluating and improving those processes plus exploring additional strategies surfaced in DebCamp to keep package quality high.

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