<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Kevin Fenzi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin@scrye.com" target="_blank">kevin@scrye.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 21:36:41 -0700<br>
Dave Johansen <<a href="mailto:davejohansen@gmail.com">davejohansen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> What is the current update policy for EPEL? The stated one seems to be<br>
> along the lines of "no major changes" (<br>
> <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy</a> ) but it seems more like<br>
> "whatever the packager is willing to maintain" is the actual policy.<br>
><br>
> I ask because a bugzilla was just opened against a package I maintain<br>
> ( <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201808" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201808</a> ) and I wanted<br>
> to know how I should handle it.<br>
><br>
> Does it need to be closed as wontfix? Or should a "notice of upcoming<br>
> major update" policy be put in place to handle things like this?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Rex already closed it as WONTFIX, however to expand on that:<br>
<br>
The current policy is to not change the user experence or require<br>
manual intervention on updates if at all possible. There are some cases<br>
where there's not much choice (like when the version shipped has<br>
serious security or data loss bugs and a upgrade to a new version is<br>
the only answer), but in those cases theres announcements to the<br>
epel-announce list and lots of time in testing.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div></div></div></div>