On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 4:13 PM Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 20:42 +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
>
> > * ...the Shiny New Stuff does not appear to be available on EPEL *at
> > all* yet - not even EPEL 8. This makes it a bit of a non-starter if you
> > want to use the same spec file bits across Fedora and EPEL. I realize
> > it may be impractical/impossible to backport everything to EPEL 7, and
> > am getting close to the point where I throw in the towel and drop
> > Python 2 support from my projects' master branches and hang the EPEL 7
> > package repos out on a branch, but EPEL 8 would be nice and ought to be
> > possible?
>
> This stands in a way of having this in EPEL 8, AFAIK:
>
> - no automatic RPM buildrequires
> - ancient pip (PEP 517 support was added in 19.0, we have 9.0.3)
> - ancient setuptools (40.8 is needed, we have 39.2.0)
> - no tox (but it's being packaged for EPEL8 as we speak)
Yeep! I didn't realize we had such ancient bits in 8...
Dynamic BuildRequires is unlikely to make it to RHEL 8, but all the
others are achievable if the requests are made, right?
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