On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 6:21 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > MinGW is a Windows cross compiler for Fedora. There is a base > toolchain like mingw-filesystem and mingw-gcc, and many cross-compiled > libraries like mingw-glib2 which you can link with your programs to > make Windows binaries, all without needing to interact with Windows > itself. > > The mingw-* packages are primarily developed in Fedora. We added them > to EPEL 7 a long time ago, but they have been effectively unmaintained > for a really long time. I don't know how to find out exactly when > they were branched, but a random sample of packages I looked at > haven't been updated in epel7/ since 2014(!), only shortly after RHEL > 7 was released. They therefore remain at very old versions with the > attendant problems that brings. > > Therefore we would like to remove them from EPEL 7. > > If this is going to cause a problem, then honestly the only way you'll > be able to save them is to step up to do the maintenance on them right > now. > > I'm not very clear on the exact removal method, whether that is going > to be retirement, orphaning or even blocking them at the RCM level > from EPEL, but expect they'll go away unless someone very soon starts > to maintain them actively. > > Note that some of these packages are in RHEL 8 CRB where they are used > to build various Windows programs that Red Hat ships, but none of them > are branched for EPEL 8 that I'm aware of. > > More information in this thread: > > https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2333 > > Rich. Adding to that, a couple of the packages are un-installable from EPEL7. It's only two, but on that bugzilla it was suggested that the packages be removed. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1760979 Judging from the number of CVE's listed in the fesco issue, I suggest archival and removal. Troy _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
