Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Fedora has a unique situation in this respect though. By policy RHEL
will not add new features in updates and since the upstream app
developer generally only cares about going forward, that means someone
has to do the work of backporting bugfixes minus features into
something that sort-of resembles the originally shipped app version.
Fedora, however is perfectly free to fix the fedora version by
shipping an update to the current app version, accepting the upstream
fix in it fully-featured form.
The situation is not as black and white as you make it out to be. RHEL
has occasionally pushed new features as updates and Fedora has done
backports.
Agreed, but there is a general trend... And ideally, I'd like to see
alternative update repos so both could be available for everything that
could be built both ways so only the people with their own 'no new
features' policies would be stuck with the downrev versions of
applications they use.
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