On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 16:18, Andrew C Aitchison <andrew(a)aitchison.me.uk>
wrote:
On Sat, 10 Aug 2019, Richard Grainger wrote:
>> On 10 Aug 2019, at 20:23, Miro HronÄ ok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> While I really tried to do my best, it seems that I broke CentOS by
>> retiring python36. Should it be unretired? Or is it reasonable to
>> say: Please wait for CentOS 7.7?
>
> This is why I believe we need a “CentOS-EPEL†repo that mirrors EPEL
> generally, but that is frozen in the period between a RHEL and
> CentOS release.
The same could be said for a Scientific-Linux-EPEL.
Would it be clearer to have an EPEL7.6 and an EPEL7.7 ?
This was the purpose of the various branching proposals. The main issue
there are not enough time/manpower resources to make any of the proposals
work as it needs build system changes, a full time release manager and
packagers who want to deal with it. In the end though this is a volunteer
project done on the side by various people in the Fedora community. If we
were to move this elsewhere, it would still be a volunteer activity.
I wish I had a better answer but after seeing us break the world every
RHEL-X.Y release.. I don't.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.