On 28/01/16 19:00, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
Well, this kind of question would probibly be better on the
epel-devel
list
Ah, I forgot about epel-devel.
And you can ask for an exception. This would entail pushing the new
version to testing and leaving it there a while, mailing epel-announce
to note that there's an incompatible version in testing and please test
and then another note before you push it stable to give them a heads
up. You may want to wait and push it stable at the same time as the
next .X release comes out.
This sounds like a reasonable plan. It will be a big change for EL6, and
a spectacularly big change for EL5 (jumping forward 5 major versions,
assuming it will even compile), so a very prolonged period in
epel-testing will be essential.
Kind regards,
Jamie