On Thu, Jan 26 2023 at 03:49:55 PM -0000, Patrick Griffis via devel
<devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How is an orphan package a good service to users? It will just become
outdated and degrade over time.
Either (a) somebody else will take the package after it has been
orphaned, or else (b) the package will be retired automatically after a
few weeks. It won't stay orphaned for very long.
If the only problem with the package is the current Fedora maintainer
isn't able to keep up with updates, as seems to be the case here, then
orphaning gives a chance for somebody else to try to do better.
Hopefully a new maintainer will only take the package if confident that
they can keep it updated.
Michael
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