On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:57:26 +0200 Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus <[email protected]> wrote:
> On So, 2011-06-05 at 11:28 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:25:59 +0200 > > Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > what happened to the python twisted framework in EPEL 4? For > > > quite a while I receive broken dependency mails for the package > > > pyicq-t but only for the EL4 branch, where I'm even not a > > > maintainer of. Since I'm not using EL4 I'm not really up to date, > > > but if I remember right the framework was available at least a > > > year ago. Was it silently removed? If so, what should happen to > > > packages which depend on it? > > > > There isn't even a git branch for python-twisted-core for el4 so > > I'd be surprised if it ever existed there. > > Your right but then I don't know why I received broken dependency > mails for the last couple of weeks/months but not, lets say, a year > ago. The package pyicq-t for EL4 has not changed since 2009 but I > receive the broken dependency mails only since a couple of > weeks/months and not since 2009. That's probably because broken dependency mails were only generated intermittently up until the last few months. > This is something which confuses me: > If python-twisted-* never existed for EL4, then pyicq-t should have > never made it into EL4 because of the dependency. True, but there's no process enforcing this other than the maintainers checking that their packages are installable; I don't think there's an AutoQA process for EPEL as yet. Paul. _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
