Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:52 +0100, Andrew Suffield > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:50:36PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> And don't tell me glibc is unmaintained or ppp. > > > >ppp *was* unmaintained, for a long period of time. > > When exactly is a package (take ifupdown for example which hasn't seen > a maintainer upload in a long time) to be considered unmaintained?
If a package has bugs for some time without the maintainer giving reasons why they are left open its unmaintained or at least badly maintained. Having bugs fixed in NMUs is also a sign of an unmaintained package. ifupdown surely looks bad. MfG Goswin