On 17 Apr 2018, at 16:54, John Hardin wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, David Jones wrote:
On 04/17/2018 03:29 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
Dave, why would it go into EPEL? SpamAssassin is a core RPM.
I will be updating my main SA platform servers to CentOS 7 this
summer so this should be good timing to get SA 3.4.2 from the core
repo update. :)
RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 core is still on SA 3.4.0 - I had to manually roll
my own SA 3.4.1 RPMs from Fedora SRPMs.
Anybody here from RH that can commit to packaging SA 3.4.2 for a RHEL
7 core update or explain why it's behind?
It's a Red Hat long-standing stability policy. They backport security
and some bugfix patches (which is why they have a version '3.4.0-2' RPM)
but they do not generally import any upstream version updates that have
any potential backward compatibility risk at all except at major EL
version releases. So EL7 systems will never get anything but a patched
3.4.0.
If you want to track current releases of software on something like
RHEL, use Fedora.
