On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 at 15:55, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
We have NEVER enforced this before because EL X-1 -> EL X was only supported under a tight contract for RHEL with special consultant support (aka you were probably going to just reinstall anyway). For EL7 to EL8, it sort of works on the EL side but most side repositories don't mainly because you are jumping from the packaging formats of Fedora 18 to Fedora 29. For EL8 to EL9 it is more manageable since it is from Fedora 29 to Fedora 34. That said there are a LOT of side effects which aren't really even tested from Fedora N to Fedora N+1 at the level that most people use an 'Enterprise' OS versus a 'Hobby' OS. [Those are mostly unfair characteristics but what most consumers of EL vs Fedora use in their heads.]
Honestly, if someone pays someone a lot of money to pay for engineers to do this and yes it could be supported. Otherwise we have to use the copious (aka non-existant) time from Neal and others to somehow make it happen because 'it should happen'
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Stephen J Smoogen.
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