On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:16 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > and if there are no bugs filed ? this sort of stance is like the "lets > remove > packages from portage because upstream is dead" ... it benefits no one
Sure it does, in my experience unmaintained packages tend to depend on unmaintained libs, which depend on other libs in older slotted versions. Usually parts of such a dependency chain have open bugs, that have been open for years and that are not going to be solved by anyone, because frankly nobody cares about that old crap, but isn't bothered enough to try and remove it and all of its reverse deps and take the flak for that, because just one guy in this world is still a frantic user of said package and will let the world know within 3 months after it has been removed. If you find something that hasn't been updated in 2-3 years, you are bound to find a trail of bugs and tree garbage leading away from it. Get rid of it, keep it clean. - foser
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