Re: Why lastrite when it works? (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due to retirement)

[Matthew Thode]

On 01/03/2017 09:11 AM, Damien LEVAC wrote:
> But routine auditing, while being wishful thinking in the open-source
> world (even when the projects are alive), are not meant to find those
> kind of bugs anyway (and wouldn't be effective at doing so either).
>

I think it's wishful thinking in every world :P

> I would argue that those concerns apply to every packages to different
> degree and you might not be safer (on the contrary) with a maintained
> but more experimental package...
>
> Even if just for the sake of stability, shouldn't there be a policy of
> inertia? I.e. if it is not broken it does not need fixing, or something
> like that? Like you said, this topic comes every once in a while and
> every time it is a waste of time. Unless there is an unknown maintaining
> cost in having it in the tree unmaintained?


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Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)