Proposing incompatible upgrade for zeek

[Michel Lind]

Hi all,

EPEL 9 currently carries Zeek 4.2.0; per https://github.com/zeek/zeek/wiki/Release-Cadence

this is actually long out of support - x.0.z releases are LTS supported
for a year, x.y.z (y >= 0) releases are feature releases supported only
for four months.

Unfortunately the package was unmaintained for quite some time - and
sorting out the changes that happened after two major releases took some
time.

I'd therefore like to upgrade Zeek to 6.0.1 (the latest LTS release); to
reduce churn we'll probably only track the LTS releases.

Nothing currently requires zeek that needs to be rebuilt:

michel in zeek on  release/6.0 via △ 
⬢ [fedora:40] ❯ fedrq whatrequires --src zeek-core -b epel9

michel in zeek on  release/6.0 via △ took 7s 
⬢ [fedora:40] ❯ fedrq whatrequires --src zeek-devel -b epel9

Best regards,

[Neal Gompa]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 11:55 PM Michel Lind  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> EPEL 9 currently carries Zeek 4.2.0; per https://github.com/zeek/zeek/wiki/Release-Cadence
>
> this is actually long out of support - x.0.z releases are LTS supported
> for a year, x.y.z (y >= 0) releases are feature releases supported only
> for four months.
>
> Unfortunately the package was unmaintained for quite some time - and
> sorting out the changes that happened after two major releases took some
> time.
>
> I'd therefore like to upgrade Zeek to 6.0.1 (the latest LTS release); to
> reduce churn we'll probably only track the LTS releases.
>
> Nothing currently requires zeek that needs to be rebuilt:
>
> michel in zeek on  release/6.0 via △
> ⬢ [fedora:40] ❯ fedrq whatrequires --src zeek-core -b epel9
>
> michel in zeek on  release/6.0 via △ took 7s
> ⬢ [fedora:40] ❯ fedrq whatrequires --src zeek-devel -b epel9

Seems reasonable to me. :)

[Michel Lind]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 10:55:15PM -0500, Michel Lind wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> EPEL 9 currently carries Zeek 4.2.0; per https://github.com/zeek/zeek/wiki/Release-Cadence
>
> this is actually long out of support - x.0.z releases are LTS supported
> for a year, x.y.z (y >= 0) releases are feature releases supported only
> for four months.
>
> Unfortunately the package was unmaintained for quite some time - and
> sorting out the changes that happened after two major releases took some
> time.
>
> I'd therefore like to upgrade Zeek to 6.0.1 (the latest LTS release); to
> reduce churn we'll probably only track the LTS releases.

Filed https://pagure.io/epel/issue/284 so this can be discussed at the
next, next EPEL meeting (since it won't have enough discussion time by
next Wednesday)

Best regards,