Re: Subversion on RedHat

At Sat, 20 May 2017 09:55:45 +0000 "Cedric J.F. Blomart (MINFIN)" <cedric.blomart_at_minfin.fed.be> wrote:

>
>
> Hello,
>
> Dumb question maybe.
>
> What is the situation with RedHat?
>
> They do deliver Subversion 1.7 in their repositories but latest releases of
> Subversion (1.9) states that the 1.7 version will not accept any more bug
> report.

You file bug reports with RedHat (bugzilla.redhat.com) and RedHat backports
bug and security fixes from Subversion 1.9 (or whatever is the current
version).

This is basicly what you do with all of the software RedHat packages for EL 6
and 7, when the RH "version" is no longer supported by the original upstream
authors.

>
> Cédric
>
>

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