On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:08:13 -0800
Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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I don't think that's true at all. Would anyone on either side
of the
debate object to an approach which tried to identify software that was
truly abandoned either up- or down-stream - not just 'software that no
longer required changing' - and throw that out?
I'm sure there's at least a certain amount of low-hanging fruit that
no-one would really mind getting rid of.
I think the problem would be coming up with a acceptable criteria for
detecting 'truely abandoned' packages.
I mean, I'm a maintainer for the Fedora apg package.
Last upstream release was 2003. I very rarely touch it.
Yet, from time to time I still use it here, I suspect, but do not know
that others install and use it.
It has no bugs currently opened against it.
It's not failed a mass rebuild.
The last time I touched it was to move it to use systemd unit files
(it can optionally run a network service to return it's data).
Is this a package that should be removed for being abandoned?
kevin