V Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 10:17:34AM +0200, Germano Massullo napsal(a): > As I wrote in > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2129662#c11 > I did not know that epel packages are used also in CentOS Stream, sometimes > causing issues like the one previously mentioned. > > In fact this behaviour obliges epel maintainers that wanted to maintain RHEL > only, to work to maintain CentOS Stream too. > This an additional source of troubles for package maintainers I guess this strategy was selected <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/NH4CM6MAVUTUH35NDM53PTKCHODSEP6F/> because most EPEL packages keep working in CentOS Stream. Hence EPEL-next delivers only the few execptions which need a rebuild/patch. Originally when RHEL 9 did not exist, EPEL-next was a completly separate repository, but EPEL maintainers were forgetting to build (and debug) for EPEL-next, hence EPEL-next became completely useless. Thus EPEL-next was repurposed as an overlay for EPEL. While EPEL maintainers might see EPEL-next as a nuisance, they should realize that what's CentOS Stream now, will become RHEL in 6 months. If their EPEL package breaks in CentOS Stream now, it will become broken in RHEL in 6 months. Ignoring CentOS Stream only postpones an inevitable maintenance work. I think EPEL maintainers should rather perceive EPEL-next the same way as Fedora maintainers handle Rawhide. The only problem is that there is no automatic move of EPEL-next packages to EPEL after the 6 months. A maintainer needs to repeat the work in EPEL and, if possible, to remove the unnecessary EPEL-next build manually <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/QMVRM4MQM4DHWUEUN65YYNU7UJADAT6Z/#MU4LXGKDUQCKKFET22J36GKLY4UFKIT2>. -- Petr
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