Pekka Savola writes:
IMHO, in cases I've seen this, most of the time it has taken
entirely too
long (even many weeks or months, even for trivial fixes).
Months? That's nothing! :-)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41991
(A local Red Hat problem, one of the patches to the upstream tar
archive is broken. Bug report submitted 2001-05-23, patch provided
2001-06-13. Now it's 2003-08-19 ...)
What is the oldest case with complete patch available?