On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:07:27 -0600
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Michael Stahnke
<mastahnke(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Adam Miller
> <maxamillion(a)gmail.com> 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...
kevin