On 15.08.2007 22:12, Mike McGrath wrote:
Orion Poplawski wrote:
> buildsys(a)fedoraproject.org wrote:
>> Packages built and released for Fedora EPEL 5: 77
>>
>> NEW arj-3.10.22-3.el5 : Archiver for .arj files
>> NEW audio-entropyd-1.0.0-4.el5.2 : Generate entropy from audio output
>> NEW cabextract-1.1-5.el5 : Utility for extracting cabinet (.cab)
>> archives
> Perhaps NEW packages can get automatically moved from "testing" into
> the current release tree? I know I'm still trying to build up all of
> my Fedora packages for EPEL.
This was brought up in #EPEL earlier today and I'd like to hear further
discussion from people on the list.
On the one hand. EPEL has to get installed and its not hard for people
to install both the EPEL and testing repo at the same time. Some might
argue that it discourages new contributors and new packages from being
built.
By pushing new packages, we are risking dep solving issues so our
scripts would have to be changed (yet again). Anyway, I'm right on the
line with this one (because I'm happy to enable the testing repo)
What do you the rest of you think?
/me votes for "leave them in testing"
The risk of broken deps is high with the current scripts. And even if
the scripts would catch it -- all newly build packages can have problems
on their own, so it's IMHO better to have a testing period for them.
BTW, in RHEL you also get new packages only with the quarterly updates
(like yum-utils in 5.1).
CU
knurd