--- On Tue, 2/10/09, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink) > To: fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 3:33 PM > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 08:26 +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > > It wouldn't set a precedent for RH to patch > something. > > The precedent since the inception of Fedora has been to > follow upstream, > unless there is a really good reason for it. > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream > > -- > Jesse Keating > Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! > identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list In following with this thread and others, I have to disagree with the above statement. Why? I see that in upstream the version of ImageMagick is : ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-6.4.9-2.tar.bz2 while in Fedora rawhide the version is : [olivares@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.29-0.99.rc4.git1.fc11.i586 [olivares@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa ImageMagick* ImageMagick-6.4.5.5-8.fc11.i386 ImageMagick-c++-6.4.5.5-8.fc11.i386 texlive is still at 2007: [olivares@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa texlive* texlive-xdvi-2007-0.12.fc8.i386 texlive-texmf-latex-2007-26.fc10.noarch texlive-texmf-fonts-2007-26.fc10.noarch texlive-utils-2007-39.fc11.i386 texlive-2007-39.fc11.i386 texlive-latex-2007-39.fc11.i386 texlive-texmf-errata-dvips-2007-5.fc11.noarch texlive-texmf-2007-26.fc10.noarch texlive-texmf-dvips-2007-26.fc10.noarch texlive-dvips-2007-39.fc11.i386 texlive-texmf-errata-common-2007-0.9.fc8.noarch texlive-texmf-common-2007-0.12.fc8.noarch texlive-texmf-errata-latex-2007-5.fc11.noarch texlive-texmf-errata-2007-5.fc11.noarch texlive-texmf-errata-fonts-2007-5.fc11.noarch while the latest version is 2008. This is not very much true for all packages in Fedora, but though most of the time, Fedora does try to be as close to the releases, but these are exceptions not the rule :) xine-lib was recently updated, in a day or two problably not more, we will see updates here on rawhide, on fedora 10 and fedora 9 for it: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xine/xine-lib-1.1.16.2.tar.bz2 This is a very strong point for Fedora. WRT to the CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE to kill X/restart the X server, I hope that they bring it back at least for many users. We will appreciate that Fedora developers care to put it back. Regards, Antonio -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
