On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 4:59 PM Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 16:51, Phil Perry pperry@elrepo.org wrote:
On 24/07/2019 19:53, Matthew Miller wrote:
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.
The issue here is not related to maintainers of a given package, but rather one of EPEL policy whereby only the latest release of each
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There isn't a policy about this beyond we use the tools we have, and those tools are built around composing a release.
Specifically, Bodhi pulls all the latest updates marked for stable or are stable and sucks them in to produce a repository. It doesn't work like dist-repos where you can tag in multiple EVRs of a package to push out. Maybe one day this will be fixed, but I'm not sure that's anytime soon...