Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti:
> 
> If anyone has any examples of where they really are being held back and
> where they really have given the arch teams plenty of time to do
> something, I'd like to see them... Somehow I doubt it happens very
> often, if at all.
> 

Maintainers want that the versions they provide to users work. I don't 
want to make that guarantee for old versions because I don't have the 
time to test wrt updates to the dependency tree etc. Maintainers could 
keep the old versions for some time but in my experience the mips team 
is completely unresponsive (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160056).

Regards,
Petteri