Epiphany package maintainer?

[Richard England]

Steve Blackwell wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:14:10 -0500
> "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> I think I must have woken up in Bizzaro world today.
>
> "...not going to fix bugs in 2.26 and earlier but Fedora will backport
> bug fixes. ..."
>
> I'm sure this makes sense to you but to me it reads that Fedora will
> backport all the fixes the upstream developer is going to make... which
> is zero!
>
> No matter, the bottom line is that the problem I reported is not going
> to get fixed in F10 which means that I have to swap over to Windows to
> use LinkedIn until I change to F11 which I'll do once F12 is released.
> Even then, the issue might still be there. <Sigh>
>
> Steve
>
>   
I believe the "backport" reference is meant to say that upstream fixes 
to 2.27.x/2.28.x or whatever version might be "backported" by Fedora  to 
version 2.26.

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