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 <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx 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
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