2008/12/21 Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Why is there a major version change (1.9.7 -> 1.11.19) going directly > into stable on F8 (which has days to live) without any information for > users what so ever that this update is providing. Please provide some > details for users and reconsider if this update is really suitable for > F8. I won't speak for Axel, and I'm not sure about F8 criteria - the pkgs were put in updates-testing months ago. The old fakeroot has a nasty race condition that leads to dataloss. The delta is a pileup of fixes, no new features to speak of. For some background, we had a good thread on this list - which I opened with On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > Fedora 7, 8 and 9 are shipping a version of fakeroot that is affected > by a somewhat nasty race condition. > > The bug was characterised here > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381016 , and with > trivial repo steps here > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446351 . This bug was > fixed in 1.8.2 - F7,8,9 ship 1.6.4. > > Hopefully, F9/F8 can get an updated version of the package included. > Help and pointers welcome :-) If that's not possible, I will prepare a > package for the school server and offer it here. cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
