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