[CentOS-devel] Community build services and EPEL8

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.




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Matthew Miller
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