On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:44 PM, Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> When ansible 2.0 was released there were some changes in playbook
> handling made. For this reason, we created a backwards compatible
> package with ansible 1.9 to ease the transition for those that needed
> more time to adjust their playbooks.
>
> Late last year it looked like there would be a final release in the 1.9
> series addressing some security issues. However, the most recent round
> of security issues found in 2.x are difficult to impossible to
> backport to 1.9 so there will not be a final 1.9 release.
>
> Since it has now been 1 year since ansible 2.0 was released, and since
> ansible 1.9 has known security vulnerabilities, backporting fixes is
> impossible, we will be retiring the ansible1.9 package from EPEL.
>
> All ansible 1.9 users are urged to update to 2.x as soon as possible.

Will the mainline 2 package obsolete the old package to ensure it
doesn''t hang  around?
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