On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:44:19PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:08:22 -0600 > Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > ...snip... > > > What does "released" mean for EPEL? AFAIK it doesn't mean "100% > > packages available". There is a set of packages that are (or at least > > are believed to be) ready now; why not release them now? If someone > > is waiting on CentOS to get their packages ready, that's okay; those > > packages won't be in the EPEL 6 release tree until they are. > > Well, it means the ones in now are the ones we will try and stick with > for the next 7 years. ;) > This is what I fear the most.... but waiting might not make it any better.
Maybe a better strategy would have been to not mass branch any EPEL packages or to tell people *not* to build unless they were at the stage that they were ready to support for the next 7 years whether or not it had a branch. -Toshio
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