2010/8/2 James Findley <sixy@xxxxxxx>: > On 07/30/2010 10:31 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:28:11 +0200 > Remember that some packages get very little activity because they need > very little. > Increasing someone's AWOLness counter because they didn't for example, > update ed is just plain silly. If a package is no longer under heavy > development, and is in a stage where releases happen very rarely if > ever, and bugfixes are similarly rare, then what do you expect people to > do? Reformat the spec file every three months so as to avoid the AWOL > counter? > > Unless there are open bugs against a package with no activity from a > maintainer, or it's way behind upstream (in which case there should > probably be a bug open), the fact that nothing has happened in koji for > three months isn't a problem. > > Lots of packages in Fedora are not bleeding edge GUI apps needing > constant TLC. Please remember this when creating policies. > Obviously, if upstream don't have a new release and the package itself doesn't have any security issue, then we don't need update it. However, I think tracking upstream in rawhide is necessary even they are command only packages. That's why gcc/glibc/coreutils in fedora rawhide are the latest version. Also, some packages which under active development are not updated for several years not just several months. Regards, Chen Lei -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
