EPEL Django deprecated

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 7 June 2013 05:53, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On 06/06/2013 10:21 AM, Matthias Runge wrote:
> > Hey, just a heads up
> >
> > the package Django has been deprecated or EPEL5 and EPEL6. On
> > EPEL6, you can use Django14 as well, if you don't require Django
> > in version 1.3. Please note, the latter does not receive security
> > updates any more and contains at least one known weakness.
> >
> > For EL5 it's not that simple. Django-1.1 is ways older; I don't
> > know, how many known security issues exist. Newer Django versions
> > require newer python there.
> >
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> Is there any way we can get usage statistics or a poll of the EPEL 5
> users to determine if there is any value in trying to build Django15
> atop the python26 stack? I expect this would be quite an undertaking,
> given all the dependencies...
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Not that I know of. The only statistics we have is what repo people are
looking for and not what they are looking for in a repo.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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