I believe that EPEL is not meant to support all possible old versions of RHEL. It is built against latest release, so the expectation is that it supports only latest release.
On Fri, Jan 4, 2019, 09:46 Petr Pisar <[email protected] wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question regarding packaging for EPEL. > > Fedora renamed perl package to perl-interpreter package and changed all > the occurances in all spec files. Because there are package maintainers who > share spec files between Fedora and EPEL, I added the perl-interpreter > package to EPEL. > > Later RHEL-7.6 updated perl to provide perl-interpreter (as a RPM Provides, > not as a real package), so the perl-interpreter package in EPEL is not > needed > anymore. > > Now the next step is removing perl-interpreter from EPEL as requested in > a bug #1663304. That seems reasonable because EPEL should not deliver > things > provided by RHEL. > > However, my concern is people who did not upgrade RHEL to 7.6. If I remove > perl-interpreter from EPEL, it could break their systems. > > What does an EPEL community recommend? > > -- Petr > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] >
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