Working update sitting in testing

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:26:06 -0500 Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 08:08:05AM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > zathura 2.6 was released even before F20 was released but the
> > maintainer appears not to want to release it on F20 and will keep it
> > at 2.4 all through F21 perhaps, since rawhide appears to be F22? Why? No
> > one knows. These policies appear to be completely arbitrary.
> 
> The policy is at
> 
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Stable_Releases
> 
> and it does leave a lot of individual discretion to the package maintainers,
> who are a diverse bunch and tend to have different attitudes.
> 
> Often it helps if you can put specific reason you need or want a newer
> version. "It's got a bigger number" isn't necessarily compelling, but if it
> fixes a bug or provides a feature you need, that might change the equation.
> And of course the package maintainer should know this, but it's helpful to
> note if you know that the update doesn't have backwards-compatibility
> issues or major UI changes.

Of course. But the LXDE bug (and this is not from LXDE actually, but in
Fedora packaging) has been around since F14! Also, I don't quite
understand the virtue of not releasing a Fedora installation
with the latest version (as far as practical) and pushing it off at
least two releases later is questionable, given that the software
itself is also evolving. 

The zathura updates (we are two versions behind now) has some fixes:


0.2.6 (2013/11/24)

    Update documentation
    Resolve layout problems

0.2.5 (2013/11/08)

    Use GTK+3 by default
    Rewritten render logic
    Fixed page refresh in certain situations
    Make the X clipboard buffer
    Allow number in quickmarks
    Workaround for print quality issues
    Update documentation
    Updated translations

As far as I can tell, resolving layout problems is a good idea. The
print quality is major. The most frustrating part is that we don't know
why this is being held off till F22. 

Ranjan

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