On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 07:50:19 -0500, Lamar wrote: > On Sunday, November 14, 2010 06:29:21 am Sawrub wrote: > > On 11/14/2010 04:07 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:51:44 +0530, Sawrub wrote: > > >> all i wanted was to know that why are they included in the > > >> results for a different version of OS. > > > Because [hopefully] they continue to work and [hopefully] the package > > > maintainer has verified that they still work without a rebuild. > > > > > Or may be the maintainer is no longer interested in re-building. > > Then they would be in the orphans list, and they would eventually be dropped if a new maintainer didn't step up to the plate. At least that's my reading of the packaging guidelines; Michael is free to correct me, as he's been more closely involved over the years. > In reality, some maintainers abandon their packages silently. Without announcing them as orphans. It needs someone else to discover the poor state a package is in, to notice that bugzilla tickets haven't been answered, and to start the non-responsive maintainer procedure according to the guidelines. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
