Re: [Evolution] Evolution stopped fetching e-mails after Linux update

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 16:34 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 14:53:16 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > CentOS 6 is not vintage. It is a current release.
>
> You seem not to understand the context of my reply. Evolution 2.32.3 is
> far a way from being a current software release from Evolution
> upstream. I never claimed that Centos 6 reached EOL. Feel free to
> provide support for a release of Evolution that is based upon a GNOME
> release, that is dropped completely by GNOME upstream. Feel free to use
> such a distro for a desktop PC to run a mail client. The kind of Linux
> that might be reasonable for a sat receiver, sever or what ever elsenot
> desktop related task, has got less to do, with a reasonable Linux
> release for the distro you'll use to run a MUA.

And you seem not to understand what CentOS is. CentOS is not an
organisation. They don't have anyone who provides support. If you want
support for it, then you need to pay RedHat. And yes, RedHat *do*
support ALL the versions of software distributed with RHEL5/6/7 and
they will fix issues in those bits of software. The CentOS community
will try and help where they can, but they can not fix problems in
software other than providing patches to RedHat (who may, or may not,
take any notice) and they will eventually trickle through to CentOS.
The CentOS admins do not patch the sources themselves.

> If they provide Evolution 2.x they are most likely the most reasonable
> persons to contact. If there should be an issue with the 2.6 kernel,
> would they recommend to send a request to the kernel mailing list?
>
> There's no LTS kernel 2.x anymore at https://www.kernel.org/ and apart
> from this even when using a recent kernel, the Centos kernel seemingly
> is tainted with out-of-tree patches.

The CentOS kernel is what RedHat provide in their source. There was
even an update to it yesterday, so yes, it is still being supported and
updated.

> In regards to requesting support by other communities and not the
> Centros community, it is a bizarre distro.

It's no more bizarre than any other distro. It may not conform to what
you think a distro should be, but that's life. It has a niche (a rather
large one IMHO) and fills it rather well.

Do you think RedHat Enterprise Linux is a bizarre distro?

> Somebody using such a distro, should expect to get weak support by most
> Linux communities. The best bet is to ask for support at the
> appropriate place.
CentOS's role in life is to provide an enterprise grade OS to the
community by leveraging the sources provided by RedHat. The aim is to
be as identical as possible to RHEL within the bounds of copyright.
(Virtually the only change to the source is to remove/change the RH
branded art work.)

And this has gone far beyond the remit of the Evolution mailing list.

P.