Bug 450480

Summary:	ejabberd upgrade to 2.0 causes ejabberd to not start
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Phil Anderson <pza>
Component:	ejabberd	Assignee:	Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Phil Anderson 2008-06-09 00:38:11 UTC

The EPEL ejabberd version has recently been updated to 2.0 from 1.1.  This broke
both my installations, and they wouldn't start again till some love and
attention to the config file (which is significantly different).

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies says that major updates
like this "should be avoided if possible at all."

Probably too late now to do anything, so I'm not sure why I really filled this
bug, but updates in EPEL should be less aggressive than fedora packages, as
described in the policy link above.

Was there some special reason for this update?

Comment 1 Peter Lemenkov 2008-06-10 12:06:43 UTC

> should be avoided if possible at all.

Should be, yes. But ejabberd 1.* lacks many necessary features (among them
file-proxy, in-band registration limitation, traffic shapers for gateways,
limitations on number of MUC--rooms user can join and so on).

I really sorry for your troubles, but IMHO updating to latest ejabberd worths
these efforts.

Comment 2 Phil Anderson 2008-07-02 10:06:33 UTC

I disagree.  The policy makes no allowances for features being so important that
it is GUARANTEED to break all installations.

There are lots of packages which have new versions out there with very useful
new features that people would like, but aren't updated in CentOS or EPEL so as
not to break installations.

Maybe there should be (or maybe there is?) an alternative repository for things
like this.

Anyway, no point keeping this bug open.