On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 15:08 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:55:13AM -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.
The problem with this is that we mass rebuild for it. In the early days we had one or two massrebuilds that weren't automated in order to catch packages that were no longer maintained. We could go back to that model but is it desirable?
Not in the least.