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