Package Review Bug#730815

[Nathan Owe]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:34:37 -0500
"Jason L Tibbitts III" <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:

> >>>>> "NO" == Nathan Owe <ndowens04 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> NO> Should I let the submitter know that it is this old or should it
> NO> be closed or the age of the upstream source ignored, in which I am
> NO> guessing the later is not the case.
> 
> Well, I could certainly ask the submitter if they're aware that the
> code they're packaging is ancient and most likely unmaintained, and if
> they're willing to essentially take upon themselves the full
> maintenance burden.  It's not anything that's against the rules, and
> I'd expect that they'd be aware of the status of the upstream project
> in any case since they've gone to the effort of packaging it.
> 
> Old code isn't guaranteed to cause problems, and plenty of really old
> code works just fine today.
> 
>  - J<

Yep old code does tend to work, but also this also means that security or runtime bugs that are around won't be fixed either, atleast upstream.