On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 4:20 PM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/23/2015 01:10 PM, Jamie Duncan wrote: >> >> How far back should red hat port fixes? The policy is public and adhered >> to... > > They should just follow their word. They state 2020. > Support means support. Freezing all the bugs in > is not support. > > And Red Hat has seemed to have lost interest in 6 > now that they have 7. > > Here is another example: > > "livecd-tools" is horrible. The stick you create refuses > to boot in most computers. The "persistence" is trashed. > There is a 3GB barrier on ext3 partitions. Yada, yada, yada. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220107 > > "I'll make updates for specific problems, but I'm not > going to backport anything to rhel6." > > In other words, don't hold your breath.
BCL then explains: "I'll work on fixing those specific things when I get a chance. But there won't be a total rebase of the code, specific fixes only." It's, again, an RFE bug...
