Marcin Juszkiewicz venit, vidit, dixit 2026-02-06 16:51:49: > After making another 10 years old package build on RISC-V 64-bit port I > started to wonder: > > Will there be some kind of 'does anyone uses it still' check in Fedora? > > > FTFBS are checked, inactive packagers/provenpackagers are checked. > > > We have several packages where last change in package was done years > ago. Despite newer versions upstream. > > Or packages where basically there is no upstream any more (because git > repo with no changes for 5+ years is far from being alive). > > Packages where last change done by maintainer was 10 years ago and then > Fedora history is 'bump due to mass rebuild' or other mass change? > > Maybe it is a time to start such check?
Hi in terms of resources it makes sense. You mention three different notions though: 1. Is upstream active? [git history] 2. Is the package actively maintained? [outstanding bugs, catch up with upstream] 3. Is the package used? [?] Cheers Michael -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
