EPEL Django deprecated

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Fri Jun 7 11:53:21 UTC 2013


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On 06/06/2013 10:21 AM, Matthias Runge wrote:
> Hey, just a heads up
> 
> the package Django has been deprecated or EPEL5 and EPEL6. On
> EPEL6, you can use Django14 as well, if you don't require Django
> in version 1.3. Please note, the latter does not receive security
> updates any more and contains at least one known weakness.
> 
> For EL5 it's not that simple. Django-1.1 is ways older; I don't
> know, how many known security issues exist. Newer Django versions
> require newer python there.
> 

Is there any way we can get usage statistics or a poll of the EPEL 5
users to determine if there is any value in trying to build Django15
atop the python26 stack? I expect this would be quite an undertaking,
given all the dependencies...
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