> I have sent dozens of emails and I got maybe 2 replies. Those were direct emails to the maintainers. Doesn't this necessarily mean that Debian only has 2 act

> I have sent dozens of emails and I got maybe 2 replies. Those were direct emails to the maintainers. Doesn't this necessarily mean that Debian only has 2 active maintainers for all those Python packages? I say "necessarily" because you said Debian put out a call for Python developers to participate. If you answered the call, and only 2 of N maintainers of the relevant packages could be reached, then a functioning project with sensible defaults could say a) 2 of N is a quorum, b) congratulations-- you now have temporary control over the abandoned packages subject to later review (they have a testing repo, no?), or c) let's swoop in and trioche the situation by using other maintainers. Only "c" would be subject to the stock Debian reply of "Debian maintainers are mostly volunteers and there is a limited number of said volunteers and why don't you become a volunteer and well, why don't you volunteer to improve the docs, then, etc."