[EPEL-devel] clarification about updates in EPEL

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:41:32 -0500
Mukundan Ragavan <nonamedotc at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

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> Hi All,
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> I would like some clarification from folks here regarding updating
> gparted on EPEL-5 and EPEL-6.
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> The version of gparted shipped in EPEl-5 is 0.4.8 and EPEL-6 is 0.6.0
> while the current upstream version is 0.19.1 (which I recently built
> in EPEL-7).
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> Mike Fleetwood, who is a gparted developer, has opened a bug
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133315) suggesting that
> gparted be updated in both EPEL-5 and EPEL-6 since the current version
> fixes lot of major bugs. As I understand it, major versions updates
> are permitted if such an update fixes major issues. In this case, the
> update would fix a big list of problem.
> 
> I tend to agree with Mike on updating but I would appreciate if people
> on comment on this.

So, IMHO the big thing to take into account: Is the new version
incompatible with the old one? Will users have to adjust code or
scripts, or are the old arguments, etc still all good?

Additionally, Are the bugs things that might cause dataloss or other
severe things? That would also weigh in some. 

kevin



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