Re: Updates for RedHat 9?

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 13:41 +1300, Greg Trounson wrote:
> Gidday,
> 
> I'm wondering when two bug fixes are going to be applied to Redhat 9.
> 
> In particular, kworldclock (a part of kdetoys) has a serious bug[1], and 
> Tux Racer has been compiled with no sound[2].
> 
> It would appear that fixes have been available for some time, yet 
> neither kdetoys or tuxracer have had any updates since the release of 
> RH9 in 2003.  Is there some other reason these fixes haven't been 
> applied to the Fedora Legacy project?
> 
> thanks,
> Greg
> 
> [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88143
> [2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85466
> 

[1] is a non-security bug in a minor application - I doubt it will ever
get patched by fedora legacy.

[2] Is a problem with sound in tuxracer that has no effect on security
at all.


Neither of these will be fixed, You should just upgrade to one of the
fedora core releases.

-sv