On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 09:07:07AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
I disagree! The quote is "they change the versions out". If you're not ready for the version to be changed, coordinate with the maintainer. As I mentioned elsewhere, I hope that in the future with EPEL 8 with modularity enabled, you'd even have the option of having the old version available in parallel.
Keeping old versions around is more of a Bodhi problem. If it had an option to keep old versions when it recomposed the EPEL repos, then it'd be fine.
It depends on _why_ there's a new version. If the new version is an API change and the consumer wants to keep the old line for compatibility, just pinning to an old release means you're not able to do bug fixes or security updates. If that's expected to be a long-term situation, a module would make sense then.