[EPEL-devel] Current update policy?

[Rex Dieter]

Dave Johansen wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Kevin Fenzi
> <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:00:35 -0700
>> Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Were the upgrades incompatible? You have to manually intervene?

> Honestly, on the machines I'm using, I installed 5.2 and haven't updated
> since 5.3 was released because I didn't want to rebuild and re-test all of
> my stuff, but my understanding of the following is that the upgrades are
> not completely compatible:
> http://upstream.rosalinux.ru/versions/qt.html

Fwiw, Qt upstream takes both api and abi stability pretty seriously 
(official public interfaces).  If you experience any concrete 
incompatibilities after upgrading, it's arguably a bug worth fixing.

-- Rex