On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 11:55 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 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.
But these rebuilds are mostly automated ones by Fedora releng and as
such not countable against the nag bug report.
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Tomas Mraz
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