On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 12:55:44AM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> That would be more or less what Ubuntu universe is doing: branch every 
> package in Fedora, build it once for EPEL, and then just let it rot unless a 
> maintainer volunteers to actually maintain it. It might be better than not 
> having the packages at all, but it also means that there would no longer be 
> any guarantee that a package in EPEL actually works and that bugs and 
> security issues ever get fixed.

Oh, to be clear, I do think about it when I update the package for Fedora
Linux. I just generally don't do an EPEL update for small bugfixes -- or for
big feature changes unless someone requests. If there is a security update,
I do it.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mat...@fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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