Re: Request for advice: Major version update of Nginx on EL5/6/7

[Gerald B. Cox]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Adam Williamson <
adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:

>  I think it would be absolutely a
>  better policy to give maintainers freedom to bump to a new release
>  series when the current release series becomes unmaintained upstream,
>  with some guidelines and pointers on a responsible way to manage this
>  process.
>  
I don't necessarily have an issue with the update policy... I think there
is an expectation that EPEL
would be more restricted in that regard - and it does have an exception for
security purposes.
Kevin gave excellent direction here; referencing the overhead that's
required for
maintaining an EPEL package.  That said, some people wouldn't want to deal
with it - regardless of their level of expertise.
That is completely understandable, and isn't a bad thing.  You can maintain
a package for Fedora and choose not
to package for EPEL.