[CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4
Ray Van Dolson
rayvd at bludgeon.org
Mon Mar 30 05:02:31 UTC 2009
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 09:56:07PM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:46:35PM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> >> The Firefox 1.5 to 3.0 move in RHEL was at least understandable, there
> >> was good reason for that, but some of the EPEL changes - I think they
> >> leave it to the discretion of the packager but it's annoying.
> >
> > Unfortunately it's often times not feasible for an EPEL package
> > maintainer to backport security fixes as RH is able to do. We simply
> > don't have the time nor skillset.
>
> I really apologize - reading my own post, I sounded like a jerk.
> I stopped maintaining for Fedora Extras because I just no longer had the
> time, and I do understand the issue and am grateful that the packages
> exist so that I don't have to compile as many myself.
>
> It is a little frustrating and annoying, but I do greatly appreciate the
> contributions of those who contribute even when a shared lib does version.
No worries, didn't think you had a bad tone in your message.. I
actually have an EPEL bug open right now. User wants me to upgrade the
pymssql package to a newer major release version. I'll probably go
ahead and do it since I don't have the skills nor time to backport
fixes to the current 0.9 version I maintain......
Fortunately ABI changes _supposedly_ weren't made. :-)
We'll see if I get any follow-up bugs afterwards from angry folk whose
apps I broke ;-)
Ray
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