>>>>> "DL" == Denis Leroy writes: [...] DL> My thoughts exactly. I don't understand why python is so DL> special. If there's community interest in a compat package of an DL> old version of anything (gcc 3.2 for example. it mysteriously DL> disappeared in FC-6 even though the SRPM is in the repo), just let DL> people work on the compat packages. There's too much emphasis on DL> "teaching upstream a lesson", and literally NO emphasis on the DL> interest to end-users. It sounds like some of you are afraid that DL> the word will spread about fedora shipping the old python 2.4 and DL> zope upstream maintainers will suddenly stop all porting DL> efforts. That's absurd. +1 There needs to a balance between lags in upstream and the interests of users. Bleeding edge shouldn't mean obsoleting things just because they don't always work with the absolutely latest release of everything. Alex -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
