EPEL-users [EPEL-devel] EPEL-5 packages to be removed

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 24 January 2015 at 14:36, Felix Schwarz <fschwarz at fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> Hi Till,
>
> sorry: somehow I totally misunderstood what you wrote me earlier + I didn't
> occur to me that also subpackages might cause the main package to be
> removed.
> Anyhow I can just hope you accept apologies.
>
> Now it seems as if I have to do something to save a part of EPEL5's Python
> stack from removal.
>
> As a first step I disabled the babel-python26 package in git. (The
> changelog
> entry is not entirely correct, as I saw now only python26-distribute goes
> away, not python26 itself.)
>
>
actually python26 should go away also. the entire python26 stack has been
EOL by the developers



> Theoretically babel could also work without setuptools/distribute but that
> will cause reduced functionality (and not egg metadata) which is currently
> provided. Personally I'd rather keep installed babel-python26 installs
> as-is
> (= just remove the subpackage) than dropping setuptools support and
> regressing
> in functionality. Please let me know if there are any objections.
>
> What's next? Do I have to trigger a build or even push an update?
>
>
I believe a build needs to be triggered.


> Felix
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Stephen J Smoogen.
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