Recent Upgrade to Bugzilla 3.2.4

[Xavier Bachelot]

> the 3.0.2 version have alot of security issues.
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> you should wast some time upgrading
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> if you need help contact me at google talk or skype
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The problem is not about wasting some time upgrading, even if you kindly
provide online support :-) It's about silently breaking a previously
working setup. The EPEL policy says update without a transparent upgrade
path should be avoided by all means and that security fixes should
preferably be backported. Granted, this is not always possible, but then,
the incompatible update should at least be advertised on the epel-announce
list, possibly with hints on how to ease the transition. At least, that's
my understanding of the policy.

Regards,
Xavier

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> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Christian Nolte<ch.nolte at noltec.org>
> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I am running a production Bugzilla-Server on CentOS 5.3. Just a few
>> hours ago a update for the bugzilla-3.0.2 EPEL-Package has been pushed
>> out, which has wasted my production system, because some of the
>> dependencies perl-CGI, perl-Email-MIME cannot be met, and even worse:
>> There is manual interaction necessary to upgrade the installation.
>>
>> I guess that this happened accidentally, because I thought that there
>> would be a stricter update policy for EPEL so that a production system
>> won't get into problems.
>>
>> Can anyone confirm this problem?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Christian
>>
>> - --
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