Epiphany package maintainer?

Steve Blackwell zephod at cfl.rr.com
Sun Aug 23 16:49:54 UTC 2009


On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:27:53 -0700
Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 11:59 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote:
> > That's what I was afraid of. The effect is that epiphany is not
> > maintained in F10. There won't be any bug fixes.
> 
> That is certainly NOT the case. Fedora 10's Epiphany package, just as
> all F-10 packages, will stop being maintained only when it hits its
> End-of-Life in December. 
> 
> There's a significant difference between pushing new major upstream
> versions to fix things, and simply applying patches/fixes on an
> as-needed basis to the current version. While we can't do the former,
> as Seth explained because of necessary updates to so many other
> dependencies, we will still happily do the latter as long as F10
> continues to be officially supported.

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




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