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mavit
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on get_iplayer-3.35-4.fc40
3 hours ago
The emacs package currently requires libtree-sitter < 0.23, meaning that this update won't install.
In any case, major updates are not appropriate for stable Fedora versions. Two things that make this update particularly risky:
- The Tree-sitter project have a history of making unannounced ABI changes.
- There is, at the time of writing, no changelog entry for this release.
This update contains an ABI change that causes Emacs to crash as soon as it tries to use Tree-sitter. Rebuilding Emacs solves the problem. We probably should test for similar problems in future tree-sitter updates so we can coordinate.
We would need a volunteer to back-port security fixes. A major version update of Emacs in a stable version of Fedora is bad, but not as bad as leaving security issues unfixed, I think.
@nixuser: Thanks for the report, but is this issue actually related to this update? It seems like this problem would be present from emacs-29.1-12 onwards, which has been in Fedora 40 since October. If so, blocking this update isn't going to help.
This is a feature release of nmon, and hence does not belong as an update to a stable version of Fedora. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Updates_Policy/#stable-releases
Dependency perl-Carton hasn't been built for EPEL 9, yet.
Final freeze for F36 is Tuesday, so this is too late.
This update introduces a new shell alias vi ->vim if vim is not installed. This broke my .tcshrc, since I can no-longer use the status of which vim to detect whether vim is installed.
Changes of this nature do not belong in a stable release. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Stable_Releases
This is a major update and does not belong in a stable Fedora release. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Updates_Policy/#stable-releases
There are many incompatible changes, and it's not fair to users to suddenly drop this on them without warning.
This issue is resolved in RHEL 7, so I think this update can be closed?