That's pretty poor analysis. The existence of an issues list on GitHub doesn't automatically mean that the issues are valid, and the 2nd random one that I picked was someone complaining that fetching a package with FTP didn't work when the network was down. In 2021.

* https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix...

Then this one turned out to be a chat request.

* https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix...

And this one the author actually asked to be closed, because the problem is fixed. It's still open.

* https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix...

If those are any indication, this is an issues list where no-one gets rid of the rubbish, and it thus its existence alone tells one nothing at all, as one probably is going to have to weed a whole bunch of very clearly non-bugs out to determine if there's anything left.