On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 21:36:41 -0700 > Dave Johansen <davejohan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > What is the current update policy for EPEL? The stated one seems to be > > along the lines of "no major changes" ( > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy ) but it seems more like > > "whatever the packager is willing to maintain" is the actual policy. > > > > I ask because a bugzilla was just opened against a package I maintain > > ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201808 ) and I wanted > > to know how I should handle it. > > > > Does it need to be closed as wontfix? Or should a "notice of upcoming > > major update" policy be put in place to handle things like this? > > Rex already closed it as WONTFIX, however to expand on that: > > The current policy is to not change the user experence or require > manual intervention on updates if at all possible. There are some cases > where there's not much choice (like when the version shipped has > serious security or data loss bugs and a upgrade to a new version is > the only answer), but in those cases theres announcements to the > epel-announce list and lots of time in testing. > Is that really true? The Qt 5 package in EPEL 6 has been updated several times and I don't recall ever seeing an email/announcement/etc.
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