Re: Fast-moving packages in EPEL

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On October 11, 2020 7:57:45 AM EDT, Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Le dim. 11 oct. 2020 à 07:47, Christopher Engelhard <ce@xxxxxxx> a
>écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>> the nextcloud server package is currently stuck at ancient version 10
>> (current is 20) in EPEL7 (It's not (yet) available EPEL8 repos).
>>
>> I'd like to fix that, but
>>
>> - upstream releases a new version roughly every 4 months
>> - they support them only for roughly 1 year (officially it's "at
>least 8
>> months")
>> - nextcloud receives A LOT of bug- and CVE-fixes, and there is no way
>> I'll be able to backport all of those, so staying on an older version
>> after upstream stopped support is not really an option.
>>
>> So, should this still be in EPEL even though it would receive major
>> version updates or is it better to retire it from EPEL?
>>
>> I suspect that EPEL users would probably prefer to run it from
>> upstream's containers anyways, so retiring might make more sense, but
>> I'm open either way.
>I'm fine with retiring it.
>
>But on the alternatives , you can have modules (or application
>streams) for both epel and fedora.
>It would be a good way forward. so it won't enforce nextcloud version
>with a given fedora and or epel and would allow to update nextcloud at
>users own pace.
>
>But as epel7 is concerned, I'm good for retirement.
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I'd like it updated, and kept updated, for EPEL 7.
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