Orphaning of unmaintained packages is a should

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index b1f946aed6cfb2de98335a385e0956277375d9d6..d90ebea1f77f490ea30f48f7ed211e0b01eabe50 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -958,7 +958,7 @@
 
        <p>
          If the maintainer of a package no longer has time or desire to
-         maintain a package, it will be orphaned according to the
+         maintain a package, it should be orphaned according to the
          procedure described in the Debian Developer's Reference
          (see <ref id="related">).  The maintainer then
          becomes <tt>Debian QA Group &lt;packages@qa.debian.org&gt;</tt>.