Package Review Bug#730815

2011-08-18 Thread Nathan Owe
I was going through the package review and I noticed this request https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730815. I was going to do a small review of it and noticed that the upstream version was released on 09-20-2005. I know in my opinion, and if it was me, I wouldn't submit a package that

Re: Package Review Bug#730815

2011-08-18 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
NO == Nathan Owe ndowen...@gmail.com writes: NO Should I let the submitter know that it is this old or should it be NO 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

Re: Package Review Bug#730815

2011-08-18 Thread Nathan Owe
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:34:37 -0500 Jason L Tibbitts III ti...@math.uh.edu wrote: NO == Nathan Owe ndowen...@gmail.com 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

Re: Package Review Bug#730815

2011-08-18 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
NO == Nathan Owe ndowen...@gmail.com writes: NO Yep old code does tend to work, but also this also means that NO security or runtime bugs that are around won't be fixed either, NO atleast upstream. Right, which is why I wrote that you should ask the submitter if they are willing to take on the