Removal request for trousers (now in EL 5.2 with a lower EVR)

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 03.08.2008 16:58, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
>> The *only* viable solution for when packages are pulled in from EPEL
>> to RHEL proper is to either pull them in at the same version as EPEL,
>> or to inflate the epoch for the package in RHEL so it always obsoletes
>> EPEL (though this can also be tricky, as downgrading foo-1.2 to
>> foo-1.1 can has undesired side-effects).
>> This is a policy decision that needs to be worked out between EPEL and
>> RHEL -- preferably ASAP.
> I partially agree except that I'd say this is a policy decision that
> should be worked out between package maintianers.  I suspect a bug filed
> against trousers would do the trick.  Has anyone contacted the maintainer
> yet?  

The RHEL maintainer? Not as far as I know. Maybe the EPEL maintainer 
has, but I doubt it.

CU
knurd