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