On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 08:53 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
