Re: retirement of klee from EPEL 9

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 9:20 AM Troy Dawson <tdawson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 8:37 PM Carl George <carl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> It recently came to my attention that the klee package in EPEL 9
>> needed to be rebuilt against the LLVM 15 library that shipped in RHEL
>> 9.2.  I filed a bug for this [0], and then noticed it was assigned to
>> "Orphan Owner".  It looks like the maintainer retired it from Fedora
>> [1][2] due the upstream not being compatible with LLVM 15 [3].  I am
>> not the maintainer of this package, but I intend to retire this
>> package from EPEL 9 to avoid having a package with installation issue
>> lingering around.  The EPEL retirement policy [4] doesn't cover this
>> exact scenario, so I plan to bring it up for discussion at the next
>> EPEL Steering Committee meeting.  We could delay the retirement for
>> one week (the policy for security-related retirements) or two weeks
>> (the policy for lack-of-time retirements), but my preference would be
>> to retire it ASAP.
>>
>> [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241277
>> [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/klee/c/35fdedce2021112b996a9d38bf3e93cf5cf236c8?branch=rawhide
>> [2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/SSJWCMXP45ERM76XH6MIW6Z76GIC7DFN/
>> [3] https://github.com/klee/klee/pull/1648
>> [4] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-policy-retirement/
>
>
> Since it hasn't been able to be installed since RHEL 9.2 came out, I'm not opposed to doing it ASAP.
> Especially since they not only orphaned it, but they retired it back in January.  And nobody came forward to "unorphan" it back then.
>
> But, since it's not installable, so nobody is going to accidentally install it, there is no rush either.
> Either way is fine by me.
>

Meh, yoink it now.



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