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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/23/2014 05:41 PM, Rahul Sundaram
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:20 PM,
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On 01/23/2014 05:06 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:<br>
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By going through those reports you will notice how long
it took for those patches to be applied as well as see
all those that have yet to be applied.<br>
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<div>Yep but these are not unique to components with an
inactive upstream. All such enhancements take time to
get through. Any changes in the packages guidelines
unless they break packages from building take a
significant amount of time to work through. I still see
packages that are just now adopting to using systemd
macros for instance or guidelines from years back and
sometimes they are deliberately doing so to maintain
compatibility with older releases but in many cases, it
has just not been urgent enough to look into them until
now. I have been working on a package (quassel) where
upstream is very active but the Fedora package
maintainer has been AWOL for a long time. <br>
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You have identified a problem but you are misattributing
it. <br>
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No I'm not in-activity is still in-activity,,<br>
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In both these cases it falls on the hands of the packager/maintainer
( or none if he no longer is with us ). <br>
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Now <br>
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A)<br>
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You cannot help those packages to get more attention. <br>
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B) <br>
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Even if you did our current package maintenance framework does not
allow for drive by patching/helping<br>
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C) <br>
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Even if that was not the case as you correctly pointed out Fedora
suffers from general resource shortage. <br>
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all leading up to... <br>
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Cutting off inactively maintained packages being the only way we can
deal with that which in turn will reduce the size of the
distribution to something we actually can maintain or cover ( which
probably is around 5k components )<br>
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JBG<br>
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