On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 11:55 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 20:44 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
Imho the only real problem from your list is, if a package is unmaintained, because if it is maintained, the maintainer usually uses it, otherwise he would just drop it. If upstream is dead but the maintainer fixes bugs, when they are found, I do not see a problem, either.
Often maintainers don't realize they have some of these packages, or the maintainers have left the project.
Even your most stable packages get touched nearly once a year due to distribution changes. With a more active rpm upstream I suspect we'll be seeing even more need to rebuild everything, at least once a year.
In fact, if we were only checking once a year, I bet many of these packages are going to get hidden behind the mass rebuilder.
But these rebuilds are mostly automated ones by Fedora releng and as such not countable against the nag bug report.