On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 07:43:45PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 25.11.2007 19:24, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 07:14:04PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> audacious > > I contacted the fedora packager (who is not very interested in EPEL), > > because I think it would be nice to have audacious in EPEL. Problem > > with audacious is that the associated libs are binary incompatible with > > each releases and upstream is not willing to help with old releases. > > I am personally not ready to do the backporting work, but somebody else > > could be interested. > > Well, the world is not perfect and we have to deal with it somehow > without reinventing the weel. > > IOW: For exactly this kind of software EPEL allows updates to the latest > upstream version in case of major bug fixes or fixes for security > related problems. Even updates to newer upstream version to improve the > user experience or to make new stuff possible are IMHO acceptable now > and then if they are carefully done.
You mean breaking the ABI is allowed? I was under the impression that it was not. -- Pat _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
