Removing Publican and fop from EPEL5

[Eric H. Christensen]

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On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:38:43PM +0100, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:
> Quoting Eric H. Christensen (2012-12-10 22:51:11)
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> > The last week or so has seen a couple of patches going into fop in the Fedora repositories.  I recently became a co-maintainer of fop in EPEL5 and was trying to bring fop into current there.  Unfortunately there are many dependency failures there that it's going to be a lot of work to bring it up to where we need it.  The actual need, from my point of view, is to get Publican working properly.  fop provides the engine for creating PDFs in Publican and is a necessary function for the Fedora Docs project.  That said, the current version of Publican in EPEL5 is very old and outdated.  Near current version of Publican is already in EPEL6 and I believe fop is in RHEL6 repositories.
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> > I say all that to ask this:  Is anyone currently using fop or Publican in EPEL5 or can we get rid of those bits?
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> > I have no problem working to bring fop upto speed in EPEL5 if someone needs it but I'd hate to do all the work if no one is using it.
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> Regardless of fop being out of date in EPEL I believe EPEL guidelines[1] strongly
> discourage big updates from flowing in. Quoting:
> 
>    The packages in the repository should, if possible, be maintained in similar
>    ways to the Enterprise Packages they were built against. In other words: have
>    a mostly stable set of packages that normally to not change at all and only
>    changes if there are good reasons for it -- so no "hey, there is a new
>    version, it builds, let's ship it" mentality. 
> 
> So I'd say: don't rebase fop at all. It's against the guidelines in the first
> place
> 
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#Package_maintenance_and_update_policy

This is a good point.  Unfortunately this would lead to the only option being to remove fop and Publican from EPEL5 because fop is broken... badly.

If no one needs it then I'll just retire it.

- -- Eric

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