On 23 December 2016 at 17:41, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III > <ti...@math.uh.edu> wrote: >>>>>>> "PR" == Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> PR> Reminder that RHEL 5 and hence EPEL 5 has got 3 months until EOL. >> PR> Packages now should really just be in bugfix and security fix only >> PR> mode. >> >> Should we be preventing the branching of new packages for EPEL5 at this >> point? We can probably get that switch thrown in phgdb. It would be >> analogous to the month of "updates but no new packages" in the (current >> - 2) Fedora release. >> >> - J< > > It's probably a good idea to do that. I'd probably hazard to guess > that the flow of new packages going into EL5 target has already > slowed, and formally stopping the addition of new packages would > merely enforce the policy that Peter mentioned at the beginning of the > thread. > > >
So this is pretty imminent now. Is the plan to drop EPEL5 packages entirely or to archive the last status of the repo like old fedora releases get archived? _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
