package (tinyca2) not longer present in F15, what to do about it?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 08:53 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> said:
> > I should note, however, that tinyca2 development appears dead upstream.
> > It last saw a release on July 25, 2006! So chances are good that it's no
> > longer safe for inclusion in Fedora.
> 
> Why does "long time since last release" mean "no longer safe"?  Programs
> don't have to change for the sake of change.

As I understand it, the issue is not that the package may have a problem
but that it has no maintainer, i.e. if a problem did show up there'd be
no-one to produce a revised package even if a fixed version appeared.

Compare procmail, which also hasn't changed in many years but is still
maintained.

poc