Need compiz rpm updates from Fedora!

[James Wilkinson]

Rob Andrews wrote:
> Can you provide several good examples of how a whole new upstream release
> has made it into Fedora over the past few years? I can think of only a few -
> as I recall, FC5 had a new kernel version not long after release - to name
> but one.

Ah. A challenge.

Yes, some time after new upstream kernels are released Dave Jones will
update Fedora with kernels based on them. He reports that it's the main
way that kernel bugs get fixed (not surprising -- there's more people
working on the upstream kernel than the Fedora one).

There's libdrm:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-December/msg00121.html
libiec61883:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-December/msg00101.html
rdesktop:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-December/msg00078.html
xorg-x11-drv-tdfx:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-December/msg00070.html
xorg-x11-drv-s3:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-December/msg00071.html
frysk:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2006-December/msg00005.html

That's just for December. Going back further, *all* of KDE was updated
to version 3.5 during the FC4 timescale.

Of course, most updates aren't full new releases, simply because this is
true of most upstream packages.

James.

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