[EPEL-devel] Re: Orphaned Packages in epel5 (2016-01-22)

2016-01-22 Thread James Hogarth
On 22 Jan 2016 17:49, wrote: > > The following packages are orphaned and will be retired when they > are orphaned for six weeks, unless someone adopts them. If you know for sure > that the package should be retired, please do so now with a proper reason: >

[EPEL-devel] Re: Necessity of some old RPM constructs in EL5

2016-01-22 Thread Paul Howarth
On 22/01/16 03:11, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: I'm now working on some magic macros for EPEL5. Currently (on my machine, at least) you can use %license and don't need BuildRoot:. I'm curious about some other boilerplate constructs, though. %defattr in %files: I've been told that even EPEL5

[EPEL-devel] [HEADS UP]: libtommath major version pre-release testing

2016-01-22 Thread Denis Fateyev
Greetings, We are preparing a major update for 'libtommath' library [1]. The last stable release happened more than 5 years ago, so there are a lot of changes and improvements over the time. Although there are still some open requests in upstream, the current library state looks pretty stable to

[EPEL-devel] Re: Necessity of some old RPM constructs in EL5

2016-01-22 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "PH" == Paul Howarth writes: PH> does not. It's probably still there because people can't remember PH> whether it was EL-5 or EL-6 that removed the need for it, and left PH> it there to be on the safe side. That's good to know. I also think there's more than a fair

[EPEL-devel] Re: Necessity of some old RPM constructs in EL5

2016-01-22 Thread Dave Johansen
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:45 AM, Paul Howarth wrote: > On 22/01/16 03:11, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >> I'm now working on some magic macros for EPEL5. Currently (on my >> machine, at least) you can use %license and don't need BuildRoot:. I'm >> curious about some other

[EPEL-devel] Re: Necessity of some old RPM constructs in EL5

2016-01-22 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "DJ" == Dave Johansen writes: DJ> And it's not helped by the fact that the version of rpmlint on EL 5 DJ> and 6 warns when it's missing. Interesting. Well, we can fix rpmlint. And I can grep at least the rawhide specfiles for remaining instances, generate a

[EPEL-devel] Orphaned Packages in epel6 (2016-01-22)

2016-01-22 Thread opensource
The following packages are orphaned and will be retired when they are orphaned for six weeks, unless someone adopts them. If you know for sure that the package should be retired, please do so now with a proper reason: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life Note: If

[EPEL-devel] Orphaned Packages in epel7 (2016-01-22)

2016-01-22 Thread opensource
The following packages are orphaned and will be retired when they are orphaned for six weeks, unless someone adopts them. If you know for sure that the package should be retired, please do so now with a proper reason: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_remove_a_package_at_end_of_life Note: If