On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 16:18, Andrew C Aitchison <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Aug 2019, Richard Grainger wrote: > > >> On 10 Aug 2019, at 20:23, Miro HronÄ ok <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> While I really tried to do my best, it seems that I broke CentOS by > >> retiring python36. Should it be unretired? Or is it reasonable to > >> say: Please wait for CentOS 7.7? > > > > This is why I believe we need a “CentOS-EPEL†repo that mirrors EPEL > > generally, but that is frozen in the period between a RHEL and > > CentOS release. > > The same could be said for a Scientific-Linux-EPEL. > Would it be clearer to have an EPEL7.6 and an EPEL7.7 ? > This was the purpose of the various branching proposals. The main issue there are not enough time/manpower resources to make any of the proposals work as it needs build system changes, a full time release manager and packagers who want to deal with it. In the end though this is a volunteer project done on the side by various people in the Fedora community. If we were to move this elsewhere, it would still be a volunteer activity. I wish I had a better answer but after seeing us break the world every RHEL-X.Y release.. I don't. -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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