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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Orphaning all my packages
From:       Solomon Peachy via devel <devel () lists ! fedoraproject ! org>
Date:       2023-10-03 19:32:36
Message-ID: ZRxsVC1rwXUnFvfo () shaftnet ! org
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 08:50:53PM +0200, Leon Fauster via devel wrote:
> If a bumped version of a package fixes an issue (stream variant of 
> CentOS) e.g 2.2, and a released package (rhel variant) has a 
> backported fix for e.g. 2.1, that doesn't mean that the code is also 
> in the stream git just because both code fragments fixes the same 
> issue. The backported code can be very different, and its not in the 
> git branch of the stream variant. So, that code is not available in 
> git, and to cite Michael "and never will be."

However, this has _always_ been the situation for RHEL.  Only the 
sources for the _latest_ point release (eg RHEL 7.4) were ever made 
available to the general public; updates/fixes backported to prior 
versions (eg RHEL 7.3) never saw the precise corresponding sources 
released (directly) to the public.  Pre-Stream CentOS therefore only 
ever received updates for the _latest_ point release of RHEL.

(Of course, actual RH customers can always download the corresponding 
 SRPMs, and RH will send the sources to any third party who makes a 
 request in writing, for $5)

So, yeah.  Complaining _now_ about what's been the operating policy for 
two decades seems pretty silly.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			      pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)
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