On 20/05/22, Ladar Levison via tor-relays wrote: > On 5/20/22 8:06 AM, Kushal Das wrote: > > EPEL generally never updates anything major, and I think in this case > > they counted it as a major update. More details can be found at [0]. > > > > [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL_Updates_Policy > > > You are correct, in that they don't like to replace a version package to > get trivial updates or new features. BUT for critical issues, they > either backport the requisite fix/feature/code, or if that isn't > feasible, update the package. And if using 0.4.5.11 means those relays > will get booted from the network, it would seem to qualify as important. > > I don't know about EPEL, but Red Hat, if it's possible, likes to release > major package update along with an OS point release. For example, a > number of packages got major upgrades along with the 8.5 to 8.6 release > on May 10th. > > I don't have any inside info, which is why I asked the list. But I think > that when it comes to EPEL packages, the community maintainer makes > these kinds of decisions. And Mister Perry did a good job of making the > update sound important. So I was wondering if a) anyone was in touch > with maintainer, or he was on this list, and could tell us when an > update would arrive, etc? I am not sure if the EPEL maintainer is on this list. I started building the rpm packages because I found there were a delay in getting the latest Tor packages in Fedora. And that was before the current maintainer at Fedora picked up from the previous maintainer.
This is also the reason why I keep pushing the latest update to our rpm repository. Kushal -- Public Interest Technologist CPython Core Developer Director, Python Software Foundation https://kushaldas.in _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays