[EPEL-devel] To update or not Audacity in EPELs - soxr, portaudio

[Matěj Cepl]

On 2015-05-07, 13:18 GMT, David Timms wrote:
> Hi, I'm considering building Audacity 2.1.0 to make available in EPEL
> testing for EPEL5,6,7.
>
> EPEL-7 builds with the current Fedora spec, after conditionalizing out
> the package appdata improvements that are suitable for Fedora 22 and later.
>
> EPEL-6 build current fails due to missing build requires:
> DEBUG util.py:388:  Error: No Package found for portaudio-devel >= 19-16
> DEBUG util.py:388:  Error: No Package found for soxr-devel

I would go with the update for the EPEL7 only. People using 
EPEL6 should be left to the stable system. I am sure Audacity in 
EPEL6 can very well edit zillion of music files (I used it 
myself) and here the stability of the system and no need to 
update is IMHO more important for somebody who still uses EPEL6 
than getting the latest bells and whistles. And I wouldn't even 
think about touching EPEL5 ... you get to the RPM dependency 
hell in its most brutal form and all responsibility for anything 
broken by touching this monstrosity. Just leave EPEL<7 be.

Best,

Matěj
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