On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 4:59 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 16:51, Phil Perry <pperry at 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 > > > s/policy/buildsystem/ > > 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... -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!