[EPEL-devel] Does EPEL support people who do not upgrade RHEL?

[Petr Pisar]

Hello,

I have a question regarding packaging for EPEL.

Fedora renamed perl package to perl-interpreter package and changed all
the occurances in all spec files. Because there are package maintainers who
share spec files between Fedora and EPEL, I added the perl-interpreter
package to EPEL.

Later RHEL-7.6 updated perl to provide perl-interpreter (as a RPM Provides,
not as a real package), so the perl-interpreter package in EPEL is not needed
anymore.

Now the next step is removing perl-interpreter from EPEL as requested in
a bug #1663304. That seems reasonable because EPEL should not deliver things
provided by RHEL.

However, my concern is people who did not upgrade RHEL to 7.6. If I remove
perl-interpreter from EPEL, it could break their systems.

What does an EPEL community recommend?

-- Petr