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...