On 05/23/2015 04:02 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 4:20 PM, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On 05/23/2015 01:10 PM, Jamie Duncan wrote:
>>>
>>> How far back should red hat port fixes? The policy is public and adhered
>>> to...
>>
>> They should just follow their word. They state 2020.
>> Support means support. Freezing all the bugs in
>> is not support.
>>
>> And Red Hat has seemed to have lost interest in 6
>> now that they have 7.
>>
>> Here is another example:
>>
>> "livecd-tools" is horrible. The stick you create refuses
>> to boot in most computers. The "persistence" is trashed.
>> There is a 3GB barrier on ext3 partitions. Yada, yada, yada.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220107
>>
>> "I'll make updates for specific problems, but I'm not
>> going to backport anything to rhel6."
>>
>> In other words, don't hold your breath.
>
> BCL then explains: "I'll work on fixing those specific things when I
> get a chance. But there won't be a total rebase of the code, specific
> fixes only."
>
> It's, again, an RFE bug...
>

Hi Tim,

   And BCL also said:

        "Status: CLOSED WONTFIX"

   I tagged the bug as RFE because I was being polite.
I have found that sometimes it is better for them to discover
it is a bug.

-T

Wwwwwwhat !?!?!?!?  I can be polite!  :-)

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