Re: Yum repros wanted

From: Adam Gibson (agibson_at_ptm.com)
Date: 06/27/05

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    Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:34:08 -0400
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    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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