Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Joerg Schilling Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
Would you like to run a Linux kernel from 2004 today?
Has the CD format changed since 2004?
This is why you are happy with buggy software from 2004 shipped by redhat when there is software with no known bugs?
In other words, you either choose a distro that offers up to date packages or you need to compile yourself.
I'm sure you realize that no one on this list wants 'up to date' software as shipped by developers - and why. Is there some compromise possible where a somewhat vetted, packaged release exists? Or RedHat gets appropriate bug reports so they fix the broken parts?
Redhat had more than 100 bugs filed against the "cdrtools" version they ship. All these bugs could be avoided by upgrading to a recent original version. Redhat closed these unfixed bugs instead of doing it's homework that would result in updated versions.
So it seems that redhat doesn't care about bug reports.
Jörg