reviving Fedora Legacy

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Oct 14 03:43:05 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 10:16 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> >>
> >> Long term stability is achieved by *NOT ADDING NEW FEATURES*.  *ADDING
> >> NEW FEATURES INTRODUCES NEW BUGS*
> >
> > But that's generally an upstream issue. The bugs get fixed upstream but in
> > general the new releases aren't included in RHEL/Centos updates even after
> > the updated program becomes less buggy that the shipped version. (Firefox
> > and OO being recent, rare exceptions).
> 
> Unfortunately, upstream developers don't always release bugfix-only
> releases.  Many times they introduce new features or change the
> behavior of old features.
Right, and how do you expect EPEL to handle this issue?

I would expect EPEL to starve out contributors during RHEL's long time
time and those who will try to continue supporting it, will be facing
the problems you described.

May-be I missed it, but I would like to hear about EPEL's visions on
this matter.

Ralf







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