On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 5:05 PM Troy Dawson <tdaw...@redhat.com> wrote: ... > While I agree that we should be very careful with this, I do not > believe it should be completely off the table. > I believe it should be permissible with the EPEL Steering Council's > blessing, but not otherwise. > Case in point is libssh2. > It was provided in the original RHEL 8.0 virt module, but not since > then. It's causing all sorts of grief, especially when people are > using both RHEL8 (where you see it) and CentOS8 (where do you don't). > There is a bugzilla ticket in with the team, but it looks like it's > going to take a while before a fix get's implemented. > My proposal is to create a libssh2 module, with a higher NEVR than in > that original RHEL8 module. >
OK, I hadn't considered that aspect and I agree with you. Under *carefully controlled and approved circumstances*, we can permit updating a package from a different module. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
