Yum - Different OS version and Arch

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 07:50:19 -0500, Lamar wrote:

> On Sunday, November 14, 2010 06:29:21 am Sawrub wrote:
> >   On 11/14/2010 04:07 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:51:44 +0530, Sawrub wrote:
> > >> all i wanted was to know that why are they included in the
> > >> results for a different version of OS.
> > > Because [hopefully] they continue to work and [hopefully] the package
> > > maintainer has verified that they still work without a rebuild.
> > >
> > Or may be the maintainer is no longer interested in re-building.
> 
> Then they would be in the orphans list, and they would eventually be dropped if a new maintainer didn't step up to the plate.  At least that's my reading of the packaging guidelines; Michael is free to correct me, as he's been more closely involved over the years.
> 

In reality, some maintainers abandon their packages silently. Without
announcing them as orphans. It needs someone else to discover the poor
state a package is in, to notice that bugzilla tickets haven't been
answered, and to start the non-responsive maintainer procedure according
to the guidelines.