[CentOS-devel] Community build services and EPEL8

Wed Jul 24 18:53:30 UTC 2019
Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>

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.


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