On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 05:11:54AM GMT, Stephen Smoogen wrote: > On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 at 17:44, Miroslav Suchý <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dne 11. 08. 24 v 12:41 dop. Carl George napsal(a): > > > > - creating epel10 branches (`fedpkg request-branch epel10`) > > > > Can be the branch automatically created for all packages that has epel9 > > branch? I am not looking forward to request dozens of branches for all my > > packages. > > > This is something I wanted to do in previous EPEL splits, but it has > usually gotten too many complaints from packagers to consider. Many > packagers don't want their packages in EPEL at all but will do so if there > are requests from someone or that there is going to be a branch packager > for EPEL packages. Many EPEL branch packagers really only want to support > one release because that is what they are using versus multiple ones. > > That said, I think it is something to revisit like we did for EL7, EL8 and > EL9 :).
I don't think this is something we want to do. Things change a lot for many packges over 3 years. We shouldn't assume that a package in EPEL N would also be desired in EPEL N+1. It might only work with an older stack, it might be something that is soon to be replaced, we can't really know. kevin
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