Yum repros wanted
Adam Gibson
agibson at ptm.com
Mon Jun 27 13:34:08 UTC 2005
Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 18:03 -0400, Adam Gibson wrote:
>
>>Paul Howarth wrote:
>>...
>>
>>>Many of the packages in Extras started life as SRPMs from other repos
>>>such as Dag's and Axel's. It would be great if Dag & Axel would submit
>>>their own packages for inclusion in Extras too.
>>
>>...
>>
>>I hope dag does not push his stuff into Extras. According to what I
>>have read on the Fedora Legacy list, Extras will not be updated by
>>fedora-legacy when Fedora EOL's it so once that happens Extras will
>>become stagnant and not even get security fixes.
>
>
> There's nothing stopping any package maintainer supporting EOLed
> distributions in Extras; however, it's anticipated that not all
> maintainers will be sufficiently motivated to do so, and it's not
> *required* that they do.
I know this has gone off topic a bit but thanks for the clarification.
I didn't realize that Extras would still accept updates to packages
after Fedora EOLs a distribution.
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