Re: Does EPEL 9 maintain upgrade path from EPEL 8?

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On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 3:21 PM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a Fedora package that I've recently also branched for EPEL 9.
>
> The (so called) binary package used to be called "python3-tox", but has been
> renamed to "tox" in Fedora 34. All supported Fedora versions and EPEL 9 have
> the package named as "tox". The package has:
>
>      %py_provides    python3-tox
>      # Remove this once Fedora 36 goes EOL:
>      Obsoletes:      python3-tox < 3.24.4-2
>
> However, the EPEL 8 package is still called python3-tox.
>
> Once I remove the Obsoletes line from Fedora, should I worry about merging that
> commit to the epel9 branch or not? Logic dictates that the Obsolete should
> remain in EPEL 9 forever, but I wonder if there is a policy/rule of thumb. E.g.
> in Fedora, we only support upgrades to Fedora N+2. Do we support upgrades of
> EL+EPEL systems as well and how "far"?
>

Ideally, we support EL X-1 -> EL X. So EPEL9 *should* upgrade EPEL8
packages, but I don't know if we enforce this.



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