24 Jul
2019
24 Jul
'19
6:53 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 11:35:39AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
The issue is .. they change the versions out and you then lose that package. next build it fails with the new one .. what do you do? The old package is no longer available anywhere.
One thing that can help here is to not treat the EPEL maintainers as an opaque "they". It's actually people you can talk directly to, and who should have your concerns as a consumer in mind. You could even become a comaintainer of the package.
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader