On 23 February 2016 at 14:10, Christian Dersch <lupi...@mailbox.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > some weeks ago I took the quassel package to fix security issues. This > worked fine for Fedora and EPEL 7, but for EPEL 6 I'm unable to apply > security fixes as one of them (the most important one...) requires C++11 > features not available in gcc 4.4 :( What is the best strategy for such > a package? >
Ouch. If the patches can't be applied cleanly and it seems that the current version won't compile with the older compiler.. I would look at removing the package from EPEL-6. Now how to do that cleanly is a bit up to the maintainer. The one time I believe I have done it, I added a "README-END-OF-LIFE" file explaining why it was being removed and also made a change to the RPM info. I pushed that and then went through the process of removing the package from EPEL. That way if people updated to that version they got a reason of why it was not going to show up anymore. > Greetings, > Christian > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list > epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
