pexepct is in RHEL and should be dropped from EPEL

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jan 22 18:26:35 UTC 2009


Robert Scheck wrote:

> As this mistake was caused by Red Hat, I don't see a good reason, why EPEL
> shall fix this and take care of it. 

It must be fixed because, that is the EPEL policy regardless of the 
history of the package.

IMHO a good package maintainer does
> such things and has a careful look around before acting, especially if the
> package is stolen (IIRC even the %changelog wasn't changed) - the Red Hat
> guy didn't do that until now.

I agree on coordination however re-using a spec cannot be called 
stealing by any means.

Rahul




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