Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> said: > On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 08:53 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> said: > > > I should note, however, that tinyca2 development appears dead upstream. > > > It last saw a release on July 25, 2006! So chances are good that it's no > > > longer safe for inclusion in Fedora. > > > > Why does "long time since last release" mean "no longer safe"? Programs > > don't have to change for the sake of change. > > As I understand it, the issue is not that the package may have a problem > but that it has no maintainer, i.e. if a problem did show up there'd be > no-one to produce a revised package even if a fixed version appeared.
I understand being dropped from Fedora for no package maintainer. I was responding to the "no upstream in 5 years == not safe" comment. -- Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
