Re: ELN SIG First Meeting

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On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 08:54 +0100, Petr Pisar wrote:
> V Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 09:46:52AM -0800, Kevin Fenzi napsal(a):
> > All that said, we could change this and just mass branch everything
> > and
> > leave it to maintainers to clean up/dead.package/retire things they
> > no
> > longer wish to maintain. That pushes more work on them tho (as well
> > as
> > more releng work to mass branch, build everything, etc). 
> > 
> It would be great to notify EPEL maintainers that there is a new EPEL
> 9 and
> that they could try packaging previous EPEL 8 packages for EPEL 9.
> Either as
> an e-mail message or a bug in Bugzilla.
> 
> But branching EPEL 9 from EPEL 8 is not helpful. At least for me as
> a packager. The reason is, as Kevin wrote, that you want to base EPEL
> 9 on
> the latest (or very recent) Fedora sources. In my opinion the
> maintainers
> would end up with merging rahide to epel9 branch overrideding all
> epel8
> commits with the risk of creaping unwanted epel8 tweaks there. I
> ground this
> claim on the fact the RHEL 9 is based on Fedora 34 where you have
> different
> packaging standards and package set than in RHEL 8.

Yeah, if we were to mass branch, I think that branching from Rawhide
would be more useful than branching from the previous EPEL.

Davide
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