pexepct is in RHEL and should be dropped from EPEL

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Jan 22 20:25:47 UTC 2009


Robert Scheck wrote:

> Hello David,
> 
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, David Juran wrote:
>> Just noticed that pexpect is in RHEL (RHEL5 since 5.2 and RHEL4 since
>> 4.7) and should therefore be dropped from EPEL.
> 
> nice, that somebody from the Red Hat fraction has been woken up, is Jim
> Parsons alive? See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452762
> 
> How do you expect that we perform the dropping? We can't remove branches
> that already exist - spoken for CVS. And the pexpect package *has* to
> remain in EPEL for users that did not upgrade to RHEL 5.2 

I thought EPEL only really supports the latest RHEL flavors anyway.  At
least that was my impression from previous similar converations.  Has
something changed?

-- Rex




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