Hi David, > On 13. Jan 2025, at 11:38, David Sommerseth via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Has something changed in the Fedora EPEL packaging policy in regards to package stability? Just for the record: I’m explicitly not answering this question. I’m also not the maintainer for sequoia-sq. > Since the updates which has arrived since early December 2024, the updates to sequoia-sq has twice broken my automated scripts. sequoia-sq did not yet have an upstream 1.0 release and did simply not yet have a stable command line interface. With the release of 1.0, upstream will now support a stable command line interface. > The first update which broke my scripts changed --recipient-file to --for-file. And on Friday another update arrived which added now a required --without-signature or a --signer-* argument. > > Rest assure, I understand the importance of upgrading packages, add improvements and even the signing aspect in PGP. But my understanding has been that the EPEL packages should be more stable than this. I don’t think EPEL can reasonably add stability guarantees that upstream does not provide except by pinning a package at an old version, but that would mean that EPEL would essentially package unsupported software. RHEL of course has a list of Application Compatibility Levels [1,2] to communicate that this can happen. Maybe EPEL should have a similar thing to communicate that a package will not yet provide a stable interface. [1]: https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel9-abi-compatibility [2]: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html-single/package_manifest/index#application_streams -- Clemens Lang RHEL Crypto Team Red Hat -- _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
