Am So, den 28.11.2004 schrieb William M. Quarles um 23:24:
Well, Fedora is hypothetically cutting and bleeding edge, but quite frankly a lot of the packages that show up in it are out of date. The need for these maintainers to supply updated packages just points more strongly at the fact that Fedora is running behind on some packages, and updates are necessary for other software to be useful with it.
Can you be specific and give quite some examples for the "lot of ... packages ... out of date"?
Of the top of my head, here is one example. It looks like someone else gave another. Mozilla on Fedora Core and Red Hat Linux has been generally running pretty well behind the official Mozilla releases. Which is very odd considering that The Fedora Project has usually been right on top of updating the obviously less important Gaim.
I remember on Red Hat Linux 9 I came across an awful bug in Mozilla that prevented anything (automatic or manual) from moving more than one message at a time when it involved an IMAP server. It was probably the worst functionality (i.e. non-fatal) bug I have ever seen in any program, and it was very obvious. I found that the bug was fixed in an offical Mozilla release. I reported this on Red Hat Bugzilla, and they told me that they did not anticipate releasing any future versions of Mozilla for Red Hat Linux 9. They ended up doing it several months later anyways, but it wasn't just for my bug. These two paragraphs seem to tell me that there are some Mozilla/Red Hat politics going on of which I am not aware.
After Fedora Core 2 came out, I recompiled its Mozilla 1.6 for Fedora Core 1 (which even at that time was behind because Mozilla 1.7 was out, but as I recall Mozilla 1.7 had some minor issues in it). It works perfectly and can be found on my website at <http://physstud.jmu.edu/quarlewm/>. I modified the spec file so that it actually gets i686 optimizations (the original spec file did not have one instance of $RPM_OPT_FLAGS in it). I tried recompiling the Mozilla 1.7.3 Fedora Core 2 SRPM for Fedora Core 1, but compilation hasn't worked yet.
If you want more it will take me some time to put together a list.
---- Peace, William
