On Wed, 14 Dec 2022 at 09:45, Miro Hrončok <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello folks.
>
> A new major version of tox was released. The bump form version 3 to
> version 4
> should be flawless to users but breaks all the plugins that have not been
> updated to the new API yet.
>
> I would like to avoid the need to maintain tox 3 in EPEL9 for many years
> after
> upstream abandoned it (they have no intention to do maintenance releases
> for
> tox 3.x).
>
> We are currently upgrading to tox 4 in Fedora Rawhide. When the dust
> settles
> I'd like to have the possibility to update it in EPEL too.
>
> One way to do it is to package a new tox4 component in EPEL 9 (and make it
> conflict with tox < 4) and keep the old tox around until it breaks (the
> breakage might mean it no longer supports a newly added Python version
> being
> added to RHEL 9).
>
>
How does this sound?

Add a tox4 which conflicts with tox3 and tox. Then release a tox3 which
replaces tox and has a prominent END-OF-LIFE file and possibly in the Info
that this is the last release of tox3 and it will be removed from EPEL
around RHEL-9.2. Then set tox3's shelf-life to 2023-07-01 in pdc. (move
dates to what you want). Then it goes and everyone knows why it went.




> Is that a sensible approach for EPEL?
>
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