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.
Do maintainer really "often" forget, that they own a certain package?
Ok, maybe if they are forced to do this from Red Hat, I do not know. But
I am happy for every package that I do not have to maintain.
But I think packages with no bug reports because they are not
used are also not that big of a problem if they exist, unless they are
really big or take very long to be rebuilt. It's imho at least not a
problem that needs to be checked for every year. Or can you point to any
known issues because of such packages since Fedora started?
Regards
Till