9 Apr
2015
9 Apr
'15
2 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 07:53:59PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
Do you know if there is some showstopper reason for this or is is just that it takes a long time to get done? I just noticed the other day that backuppc isn't there either.
http://www.scrye.com/wordpress/nirik/2014/11/26/how-packages-are-added-to-ep...
tl;dr: Maintaining a package in EPEL is a big commitment and can be a lot of work; people aren't automatically commited to new versions. If a package isn't in EPEL 7, talk to the EPEL 6 maintainer and consider helping out.
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Matthew Miller
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