Epiphany package maintainer?

Steve Blackwell zephod at cfl.rr.com
Sun Aug 23 15:59:53 UTC 2009


On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:19:02 +0530
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On 08/23/2009 08:45 PM, Steve Blackwell wrote:
> > Anybody know how I can contact the epiphany Fedora package
> > maintainer?
...
> > In case whoever it is hangs out on this list, I want to know if
> > there are plans to release a 2.27.x version of epiphany for F10.
> > The epiphany developers say that there will be no more bug fixes
> > for anything earlier than 2.27.x because the gecko based back end
> > has been replaced with a Webkit based back end. Since F10 is still a
> > supported version I think that there should be a 2.27.x version
> > available and hopefully the bug I reported has been fixed.
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592612
> 
> 2.27 is a unstable version/ development branch of 2.28. Since it
> requires a much newer version of several dependencies, it has no
> chance of being pushed as an update to Fedora 10.
> 
> http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/packagename-ownerfedoraprojectorg/

That's what I was afraid of. The effect is that epiphany is not
maintained in F10. There won't be any bug fixes.

Steve




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