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.