On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 15:08 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:55:13AM -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. > > > The problem with this is that we mass rebuild for it. In the early days we > had one or two massrebuilds that weren't automated in order to catch > packages that were no longer maintained. We could go back to that model but > is it desirable? > Not in the least. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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