[CentOS-devel] Community build services and EPEL8

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 09:43:20PM +0100, Phil Perry 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
> package is available in the repository. As Johnny correctly

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.

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader