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Following the the proposal about orphaned packages I started working on a script for smoothly injecting (with svn-inject) orphaned packages in our svn repository.

Here is an example of use for this script:

archive2svn --mirror=ftp2.fr.debian.org \
                    --repository=svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/qa/test-repo \
                    --cachedir=/var/cache/archive2svn \
                    --action=inject \
                    --verbose

This script will download the unstable/main Sources.gz file and will parse it, allowing you to either grab the source packages, inject them in SVN or even list them.

At the moment, we want to gather as more information as possible about orphaned packages, we have 252 of them currently.
We try now to gather external maintainer candidates for the orphaned packages, here is a draft listing them (well, at the moment, only one is recorded)

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