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

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Tue Aug 9 15:55:08 UTC 2011


Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> said:
> 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.

I understand being dropped from Fedora for no package maintainer.  I was
responding to the "no upstream in 5 years == not safe" comment.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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