Dark clowds at the sky... We're facing the problem of unmaintained packages. E.g. Snort which was last built for Red Hat Linux 9 on 23-Apr-2003 and since then has neither been updated nor rebuilt for Fedora Core. Or cfengine [1], which has binary builds of a security update waiting in the "pending" repository [2] since 2004-08-16, but nobody (including the package developer) doing the verification/approval step to get this published. Anybody interested in taking over these packages? I have the feeling that there may be more packages in such a state. If you know some, I'd like to know. Or file a bug report, please. There's no requirement for packages to be the bleeding edge very latest upstream versions. But unmaintained/desolate packages, which are not available after a distribution upgrade, should be dealt with in some way. -- [1] https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1980 [2] http://download.fedora.us/pending/ Fedora Core release 2.92 (FC3 Test 3) - Linux 2.6.8-1.541 loadavg: 1.73 1.77 1.67
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