Long-term package versions (RHEL 5 extended to 10 years until EOL)

[Xavier Bachelot]

On 02/09/2012 02:55 PM, Christopher Meng wrote:
> Can I saw something about bugzilla?I opened a ticket weeks ago,them I
> got a reply that because of policy in EPEL,Redhat will not update.And
> a engineer said that he will do a backport job.
> I really cant agree with this.Bugzilla 4.x improves many features,but
> redhat will only contains a very old version.Why?Why cant we be
> fresh?The policy only want us to use 3.x at least 10years,that funny.
>
This was me, and I'd like to make clear that I'm neither a RedHat 
engineer, nor am I paid to maintain bugzilla. And also, EPEL is not 
RHEL, this is only an additional repository maintained by the community.

Please read again what I answered in both bugs. Please read again the 
(current) EPEL policy as well as what was said in this thread. We are 
trying very hard to satisfy everyone's need. You may dislike the 'no 
disruptive update' policy, but some others are relying on it.
There are some ways out. In bugzilla's case, that might be packaging a 
parallel installable bugzilla40. I've even offered to help review it, if 
someone wants to do the packaging work but I'm not prepared to do this 
work myself now. By all means, feel free to help us move forward.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783000
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787825
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies
https://www.redhat.com/archives/epel-devel-list/2012-February/msg00013.html

Regards,
Xavier