Epiphany package maintainer?

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sun Aug 23 17:14:10 UTC 2009


Steve Blackwell wrote:
> 
> When I filed a bug
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592612
> 
> the response from the epiphany developers was
> 
> "Thanks for taking the time to file this bug report. Can you reproduce
> this problem with Epiphany 2.27.x with the WebKit backend?
> 
> Because the Gecko backend has been discontinued, there will be no more
> bugfixes for versions 2.26 and earlier."
> 
> This plainly says >>> there will be no more bugfixes for version 2.26
> and earlier. <<<
> 
> Now you say there will be bugfixes. Who am I to believe?
> 
> Steve
> 
Both. The upstream developer is not going to fix bugs in 2.26 and
earlier, but Fedora will backport bug fixes. This is not the only
package they do this for. (Red Hat does even more of this.)

Mikkel
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