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.
Ray