I don't really think you did - you said they exist but you attitude amounted to "if the maintainer can't be bothered to say hi the package/project doesn't matter". I think this is far off the mark because of the volume of those packages in dependency chains.
Yes, I acknowledged that in my earlier comment so I'm not sure why you're pointing it out to me again.
I don't really think you did - you said they exist but you attitude amounted to "if the maintainer can't be bothered to say hi the package/project doesn't matter". I think this is far off the mark because of the volume of those packages in dependency chains.
That's not what I said at all.
Yes, some finished projects have lots of projects that depend on them.
And of course lots of abandoned projects also have projects that depend on them. So it's not clear what your point is.