On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 11:51:50 -0600, Kevin wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 14:57:14 +0200 > Michael Schwendt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/550448 > > > > Could somebody from the EPEL project leaders please explain this? > > Thats sad. :( > > I remember long ago using mock on el4, so I don't know when it broke, > but I am pretty sure it worked at one point. ;( > > So, yes, we should remove this package or they should fix it to work on > EL4. It's quite disappointing that they were shipping it broken with > bug filed all this time. > > Does it really need python 2.4? > Or would something like python-kitchen help? > > I'll ask that on the bug.
Here's info about the package life-time, mock-0.7.2-1.el4.1 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=108451 built on 2009-06-20 (probably when koji was populated for epel) but as old as 2007 according to the spec %changelog and bodhi knows about a version upgrade directly to 1.0.1, introducing the Python 2.4 dependency five months later: mock-1.0.1-1.el4 bugfix update https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/mock-1.0.1-1.el4 Date Released: 2009-12-01 17:49:47 Details Fix creation of root cache tarballs Bugs Fixed 540997 - Intermittent errors creating mock root cache tarball ^^^^^^ ^^ ^ That's for a Fedora 12 bug report. The proposed final patch replaces just a few lines. No EPEL4 specific bugs mentioned. Not even the jump from 0.7.2 to 1.0.1 was warned about. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#Package_maintenance_and_update_policy http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_does_Fedora_Project_ensure_the_quality_of_the_packages_in_EPEL.3F http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_long_are_EPEL_packages_updated.3F http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_can_we_be_sure_that_someone_will_maintain_the_packages_until_end_of_life_of_the_distribution_the_packages_were_built_for.3F Hmmm... a clever combination of FAQs. _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
