EPEL-ANNOUNCE Attention: Removal of python36 from EPEL-7 on 2019-10-03

[Stephen John Smoogen]

With the release of RHEL-7.7, many of the packages for python36 in
EPEL were replicated in the release as python3-3.6 packages. The
normal pattern when this is seen is to remove the packages from EPEL
so that they do not cause problems. However, this did cause problems
for users of CentOS-7 who did not have access to the newer packages.
Two weeks ago, CentOS-7.7.1908 was released and should have flowed out
to users as needed.

So it is time to remove the following src.rpm packages from EPEL:

python36-3.6.8-1.el7.src.rpm
python3-setuptools-39.2.0-3.el7.src.rpm

As they are duplicated by:

python3-3.6.8-10.el7.src.rpm
python3-setuptools-39.2.0-10.el7.src.rpm

We will be removing the python packages on 2019-10-03 so that they
should disappear during the repository compose on 2019-10-04. EPEL is
a rolling release locked against the latest state of the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux repositories. If you are using an older snapshot of
RHEL or CentOS, you should sync down versions of the repository and
lock particular versions for your use.