Re: [EPEL-devel] inconsistent EPEL 5 repository

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 6 February 2015 at 08:12, Cristina Aiftimiei <caifti(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
>  I understood that there is now, or it was since log time, but it is
>  enforced in the last months, a procedure of retireing obsoleted,
>  unmaintained packages. Nothing against it, just that the way it is applied
>  creates problems. Most probably it is because maintainers are not having a
>  look at the e-mails with the subject "Orphaned packages in epelX".
>
>  
Hi,

Do you have a suggestion on a better title for emails? We are trying to get
as much attention on this with comaintainers on packages also getting
direct emails.



>  We have now a situation like this:
>  - one of our packages uses "python-daemon"-
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/python-daemon/. As you see
>  it is supported on all OSes, in particular it is supported on EPEL5
>  - python-daemon depends on "python-lockfile" -
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/python-lockfile/
>  and
>  "2015-01-23: Retired orphaned package, because it was orphaned for more
>  than six weeks.
>  Reference: https://fedorahosted.org/epel/ticket/7"
>  And from here you arrive to our problem - we are not able to install our
>  middleware because:
>  --> Running transaction check
>  --> Processing Dependency: python-daemon for package: apel-ssm
>  --> Running transaction check
>  ---> Package python-daemon.noarch 0:1.5.2-3.el5 set to be updated
>  --> Processing Dependency: python-lockfile for package: python-daemon
>  --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>  python-daemon-1.5.2-3.el5.noarch from epel has depsolving problems
>    --> Missing Dependency: python-lockfile is needed by package
>  python-daemon-1.5.2-3.el5.noarch (epel)
>
>  Our packages were not changed or build latelly, and even if they were we
>  couldn't see the issue as the dependecy is on python-daemon and it is only
>  at runtime.
>
>  We have the same issue with:
>  "python-twisted-web-0.7.0-1.el5.x86_64 from epel has depsolving problems
>  --> Missing Dependency: SOAPpy is needed by package
>  python-twisted-web-0.7.0-1.el5.x86_64 (epel) Beginning Kernel Module Plugin
>  Finished Kernel Module Plugin Error: Missing Dependency: SOAPpy is needed
>  by package python-twisted-web-0.7.0-1.el5.x86_64 (epel)"
>
>  Is there anything that we, you can do?
>
>  
There isn't much we can do beyond asking someone to take maintenance of
these packages.  We are a volunteer organization and have to rely on people
who need things to do some of the work so that everyone can benefit. If you
or someone on your team can work on maintaining those packages in the trees
you want that would be great.


>  Thank you very much,
>  Cristina
>
>
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-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.