On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 08:54 +0100, Petr Pisar wrote: > V Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 09:46:52AM -0800, Kevin Fenzi napsal(a): > > All that said, we could change this and just mass branch everything > > and > > leave it to maintainers to clean up/dead.package/retire things they > > no > > longer wish to maintain. That pushes more work on them tho (as well > > as > > more releng work to mass branch, build everything, etc). > > > It would be great to notify EPEL maintainers that there is a new EPEL > 9 and > that they could try packaging previous EPEL 8 packages for EPEL 9. > Either as > an e-mail message or a bug in Bugzilla. > > But branching EPEL 9 from EPEL 8 is not helpful. At least for me as > a packager. The reason is, as Kevin wrote, that you want to base EPEL > 9 on > the latest (or very recent) Fedora sources. In my opinion the > maintainers > would end up with merging rahide to epel9 branch overrideding all > epel8 > commits with the risk of creaping unwanted epel8 tweaks there. I > ground this > claim on the fact the RHEL 9 is based on Fedora 34 where you have > different > packaging standards and package set than in RHEL 8.
Yeah, if we were to mass branch, I think that branching from Rawhide would be more useful than branching from the previous EPEL. Davide _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
