Orphaning Candidate packages for removal due to FTBFS, implications

[Jesse Keating]

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.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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