On 20. 01. 21 15:27, Troy Dawson wrote:
This last week in the EPEL Steering Committee meeting, we talked about what happens when an EPEL package gets pulled in and released in RHEL. There were a couple of people who said that had happened to them and they were totally un-aware that it was going to happen. I contacted a couple people in Red Hat and found out that part of the New Package procedure includes an EPEL check. If the package is in EPEL they are supposed to contact the EPEL maintainer. They are also supposed to have the NVR higher than the EPEL version. This is a new procedure, implemented in June 2020. If you are a EPEL package maintainer, and your package was pulled into RHEL 7 or 8, and you were not contacted, please let me know. Red Hat wants this procedure to work, because when things go wrong, it affects their customers. Their current way of finding out who to contact is to do the following curl https://src.fedoraproject.org/_dg/bzoverrides/rpms/<package name> example $ curl https://src.fedoraproject.org/_dg/bzoverrides/rpms/git-lfs { "epel_assignee": "carlwgeorge", "fedora_assignee": "qulogic" } If anyone knows of a better way to find the EPEL maintainer, please let me know and I'll pass it on.
Apparently, the EPEL maintainer receives an automated message like this:
This is an email notification that the new package: pybind11 is being added to RHEL 8.4.0 and also exists in EPEL 8. You may want to remove pybind11 from EPEL 8 or at least confirm that the pybind11 Version-Release will cleanly upgrade from and replace the EPEL package.
This also happens when the package is only added to a modular non-default stream. Is there a way the message could be adapted to:
- discourage immediate retirement (RHEL 8.4 is not yet out, also CentOS Linux) - mention that removal is not always desired (especially with modular packages) ? -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok _______________________________________________ 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
