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.
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Tomas Mraz
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