I have one project on GitHub that I use all the time as part of a script and only push changes when the python API breaks it. It is essentially “finished” and usually just needs a quick compile against the new python version whenever I upgrade the distro. I haven’t even had to touch for at least as long as GitHub required ssh keys so by all accounts this would be an abandoned project.
Now that I think about it — it is a python wrapper around a boost library and neither of those have made backwards incompatible changes in a long time which is quite suspicious.
Boost libs circa Ubuntu (14 or 16.04) had JSON parser that allowed comments, while the newer Boost in Ubuntu 20.04 (and I think already in 18.04) had "updated" it and then it didn't allow comments any more.
Just a small anecdote of Boost changing behavior that broke some of my stuff.
I kind of expect that I’ll have to do some work at upgrade time but it’s been a while. Usually python is the culprit and can only remember boost breaking something once but that was a different project. The maintainer was quite nice on trying to help me figure it out but I don’t think I ever got it working the same again.
Now that I think about it — it is a python wrapper around a boost library and neither of those have made backwards incompatible changes in a long time which is quite suspicious.