On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 15 August 2012 15:13, BJ Dierkes <de...@bjdierkes.com > (mailto:de...@bjdierkes.com)> wrote: > > I am the maintainer, as well as the upstream developer of 'python-cement', > > a CLI Application Framework for Python [1]. Current version of > > python-cement in EPEL 5/6 is 0.8.18, however I recently released version > > 2.0.0 upstream which is the next/current stable version. The 0.8.x/1.0.x > > branch is dead upstream and no longer maintained, and for that reason I > > would like to request the ability to break compatibility and upgrade EPEL > > to the latest stable and supported version of Cement. > > > > This is a completely incompatible upgrade. Applications written on top of > > Cement 0.8.x would need significant changes (or a full rewrite of all the > > CLI pieces) to work with Cement 2.0.x. That said, there are no packages in > > EPEL that Requires: python-cement. Presumably there are users that are > > using python-cement for non-EPEL software however that is obviously not > > possible to know whether it is a significant number or not. Based on > > feedback, I don't think many people are using Cement 0.8.x but I really > > couldn't say officially. > > > > Currently there are no known bugs or security issues with python-cement in > > EPEL as it stands, therefore it is not eligible for an 'incompatible > > upgrade'. That said, based on usage and its upstream status… I figured it > > wouldn't hurt to ask. > > 1) Would it be possible to make a package called python-cement2 which > would track this chain and then you could dead package the old one if > no one wants to maintain that tree? > I could do that, but it would mean one of two things right?
a) python-cement2 Conflicts with python-cement b) python-cement2 patches the source so the module is 'cement2' (no good) Using the conflicts model, I would probably rather add it to the IUS Community Project [2] which does that explicitly for all packages, and in EPEL its kind of a hack. References: [2] http://iuscommunity.org --- derks _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list epel-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
