[EPEL-devel] Re: conflicting with a devel package

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:47:41 +0200
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi,
>   I'm reviewing package [0] for inclusion into epel6 but it provides a
>  devel package which conflicts with an other devel package from rhel.
>  In https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies it says
>  "EPEL packages must never conflict with packages in RHEL Base",
>  however, I'm not sure whether that includes the -devel packages or
>  not. Could someone clarify that issue? 
yes, that includes -devel packages. 

We talked once about relaxing that, but we never did, so as of right
now you should not conflict in any subpackage. 

kevin