On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:34:37 -0500 "Jason L Tibbitts III" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>> "NO" == Nathan Owe <[email protected]> writes: > > NO> Should I let the submitter know that it is this old or should it > NO> be closed or the age of the upstream source ignored, in which I am > NO> guessing the later is not the case. > > Well, I could certainly ask the submitter if they're aware that the > code they're packaging is ancient and most likely unmaintained, and if > they're willing to essentially take upon themselves the full > maintenance burden. It's not anything that's against the rules, and > I'd expect that they'd be aware of the status of the upstream project > in any case since they've gone to the effort of packaging it. > > Old code isn't guaranteed to cause problems, and plenty of really old > code works just fine today. > > - J< Yep old code does tend to work, but also this also means that security or runtime bugs that are around won't be fixed either, atleast upstream. -- devel mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
