Am 08.01.2015 um 00:17 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
That is kind of a basic requirement. We need to do more. We need to
inform
people when their release is going EOL and we also need to automatically
prompt users to upgrade whenever there is a new release (ie) some integration
between GNOME Software/Apper and Fedup
Maybe this is part of a bigger theme (e.g. "improve packager <-> user
connection"?
For example AFAIK users don't get any explanation if one of their installed
packages got orphaned in Fedora when upgrading.
While this isn't such a big deal with Fedora ("Core") where we have
frequent
releases this seems to be even more important for EPEL. I think by now it's
pretty clear that the community is unable maintain some package versions for
full length of a RH release cycle which leads to random/unpredictable major
version upgrades or just completely outdated versions (which are not supported
by upstream anymore, thus security issues might not be handled properly).
So having a way for packagers to communicate with actual Fedora users would be
a great thing. Obviously due to the more temporary(?) nature of COPR repos
these seem to hit similar problems.
Felix