EPEL Guidelines

Brad Bell bradbell at seanet.com
Sun Apr 6 18:10:15 UTC 2008


I am a Fedora package maintainer and am considering creating an EPEL branch.

In the guidelines on
    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies
under the heading
    Some examples of what package updates are fine or not
it appears that package updates should:
    1. be backward compatible
    2. fix a serious bug

It seems that, once a package is released in EL-n, new features are not 
a reason to create a new release of the package in EL-n. An update with 
the purpose of adding new features should wait for EL-(n+1) ?





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