One of things I've invested some time towards over the years is cutting down on the amount of %if spaghetti needed to share spec files between Fedora and EPEL. Earlier in the discussion about the mass python-X -> python2-X move I volunteered to maintain a number of "stub packages" in EPEL which have the sole purpose of letting packagers uniformly have dependencies on python2-X. A couple of people told me they thought I was being facetious, so I wanted to try again and assure everyone that I was indeed serious.
Here's a rough, in-progress draft: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tibbs/EPELPythonStubPackages Basically: create some EPEL-specific python2-X packages that do nothing besides depend on the base RHEL python-X packages. If anyone can think of a reason why this would be problematic, please let me know. I'm especially concerned about situations where the existence of these packages could cause problems for RHEL. I've tried to be careful about detailing how version and release would be maintained and how the dependencies will be versioned so that RHEL can be updated without the EPEL package being immediately updated to match. - J< _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
