On 01/15/2014 12:16 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > On 14 January 2014 09:57, Orion Poplawski <or...@cora.nwra.com > <mailto:or...@cora.nwra.com>> wrote: > > It seems like it would be nice to have python 3 in EPEL 7. Anyone > willing to > maintain it there? > > It seems to build fine: > > http://copr-fe.cloud.fedoraproject.org/coprs/orion/Python3_EPEL7/builds/ > > > Well a couple of other things would be needed beyond just maintenance: > > 1) Does providing python-3.4 mean that 3.4 will be the only python every > provided by EPEL? > 2) If it doesn't then how are upgrades from 3.4 to 3.5 to 3.6 going to be > handled? > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > > > Well the problem is that once you provide a build for EPEL, you shouldn't > really do major updates [1], so it seems we would be stuck with whatever we > build for 10+ years. I don't like that very much. We could probably do > python3.4, python3.5 etc, but that'd probably require some modifications to > dependency generators, etc... I'm not going to stay in anyones way to do this, > but I won't do it myself. > > Slavek. > > [1] > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#A_major_version_update >
Well, quite frankly, I think anyone expecting 10 years of support for EPEL packages is deluding themselves, some specific packages excepted. Users of EPEL are probably best served by upgrading to newer versions of EL as soon as practical. My recommendation would be to ship python 3.4 as a "normal" python3 package. The python folks appear to be committed to providing 5 years of security fixes for a release. This seems to be as long can be reasonably expected of EPEL. Perhaps as time goes by, it may make sense to package a later python3.X version if people really want to. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane or...@nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.nwra.com _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel
