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.
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