Keith Keller kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote:
On 2013-08-19, Joerg Schilling Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
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.
None of this is helpful to the OP. You should either point him to your preferred location for acquiring your version of cdrtools, or provide a yum repository for RHEL/CentOS users to download rpms. You should warn him that either of these methods will "officially" break binary compatibility with upstream (which users need to decide for themselves if they wish to do that).
Please do not write false claims!
If you know about problems, send evidence
There are more then 100 bug reports in the redhat bugtracking system (just change your view to see all closed but unfixed bugs) that confirm problems with the binaries distributed by redhat and the users who reported the bugs confirmed that upgrading to recent original software fixed the problem.
It is pretty obvious that redhat does not care about it's users...
Jörg