[EPEL-devel] Re: Does EPEL 9 maintain upgrade path from EPEL 8?

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 8:21 PM Miro Hrončok  wrote:
> Once I remove the Obsoletes line from Fedora, should I worry about merging that
> commit to the epel9 branch or not? Logic dictates that the Obsolete should
> remain in EPEL 9 forever, but I wonder if there is a policy/rule of thumb. E.g.
> in Fedora, we only support upgrades to Fedora N+2. Do we support upgrades of
> EL+EPEL systems as well and how "far"?

My own personal rule of thumb is that while I
much prefer spec file cleanliness, leaving the
Obsoletes: in the spec file (essentially) forever
does no harm, and can support less common
situations, since "users do the darndest things".