EPEL Deprecated Django 1.5 in

[Matthias Runge]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 01:28:04PM +0300, Dionysis Grigoropoulos wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> as far as I can see, EPEL 7 currently provides packages `python-django`
> and `python-django15` being versions 1.6.5 and 1.5.6 respectively. EPEL
> 6 provides `python-django15` and `Django14` being 1.5.6 and 1.4.14.
> 
> According to the Django documentation [1], since version 1.7 was
> released, version 1.5 won't receive security updates anymore. Wouldn't
> it be better to remove python-django15 from both repos and add 1.4
> (current LTS which will be supported at least until March of 2015) to
> EPEL 7 and 1.6 to epel 6?

Thank you for the heads-up.

I recently retired python-django15 from Fedora 21+, and I should do the
same ASAP for EPEL6 and EPEL7 as well.

(THIS IS THE ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT REMOVAL in about two weeks.)

About adding Django14 to EPEL7: Since there is currently Django-1.6,
which is supported until March 2015 as well, I don't see any pro to add
another Django version. The other reason is: having two versions in the
same release is just a pain; I'd try to avoid this; they need to be
installable in parallel. We had that, it didn't work very well.

Does this make any sense?
Matthias
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Matthias Runge <mrunge at matthias-runge.de>