On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 1:25 PM Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden <ewoud+fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > There is an ancient version of Puppet in EPEL-7. Version 3.6 has been > EOL for ages now. https://binford2k.com/2016/11/22/puppet-3.x-eol/ has a > nice EOL overview: > > * Puppet 3 - 2016-12-31 > * Puppet 4 - 2018-10-?? > * Puppet 5 - 2021-02-?? > > Puppet 6 requires a newer Ruby version than is available in EL7 so > rebasing the whole stack is not going to work. In theory you could use > SCLs but I think it's unrealistic to expect that. > > However, all bugs open for Puppet relate to EPEL-7[1] so I'm wondering > what to do. > > We can close all bugs as WONTFIX (including the security ones), but > would it be better to also remove the package from EPEL-7? > > Regards, > Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden > > [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&classification=Fedora&component=puppet&list_id=12574395&product=Fedora&product=Fedora%20EPEL > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure Retiring epel7's puppet may be the preferred option. It is allowed [0], but if you go this route please mention it on the epel-devel list (and perhaps epel-announce) first. Alternatively, have you considered doing an incompatible update [1] to version 5? It may already be EOL, but surely that's a better option than the current version 3 or removing it entirely. [0] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Retirement_Process/#what_can_be_retired [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-policy-incompatible-upgrades/ -- Carl George _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
