Release and update procedure for EPEL

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Mar 2 17:32:01 UTC 2007


Thorsten Leemhuis (fedora at leemhuis.info) said: 
> AFIACS the same as in Extras in the past: File a bug, poke Red Hat
> maintainers (¹) and pray that it gets fixed.
> 
> Especially the last part is important.
> 
> Sorry, sound like a joke, and in parts is one, but well, on the other
> hands that's how it roughly worked for community contributors in Extras(²).

Sure, but it's actually a lot easier to get things fixed in Fedora,
especially if it's just 'grab a newer version'. I'm not sure I can
convincingly come up with a business case for rebasing guile for
RHEL 4. :)

Bill




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