On 21/12/15 16:05, Zuzana Svetlikova wrote:

I, and you probably as well, noticed, that a lot of packages use tap module for testing. The version packaged in fedora is quite outdated and obviously needs an update. My question is, is it a good idea to multiversion this package or should we just update to latest version? I can see developers use 2.x and 1.x version, sometimes even 0.x, 1.x and 2.x dependencies are mostly the same packages in the same versions.

Our general policy has been that we only multiversion if we really have to so if packages using older versions can relatively easily be patched to use a newer one then we usually wouldn't bother.

How big are the differences? Is it common to need to patch things, and it so how hard is it?

Tom