On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:07:27 -0600 Stephen John Smoogen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Michael Stahnke > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Adam Miller > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As per the new EPEL policy that was voted on recently, the push of > >> that update is not allowed unless there is a justification due to > >> security vulnerability. > >> > >> -Adam (From Android) > > > > Where was this vote? I know I missed a couple of EPEL meetings, was > > it recently? > > It was recent. The basics are: > > 1) Updates/upgrades are ok as long as they do not break compatibility > or require manual intervention to get working. > 2) If an update/upgrade will break the release, the package is > affected by a security problem then an update is allowed if it is > announced and I think, gets a month of testing in epel-testing. > 3) Otherwise either a clean fix needs to be made or the package is not > to be upgraded. > > And yes this needs to be written up but crap the whole EPEL wiki needs > a rewrite. Should be at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL_incompatible_upgrades_policy Discussion at: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-10-02/fedora-meeting.2009-10-02-21.00.log.html#l-25 kevin
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