Hi,
I'm working on adding pybind11 to RHEL 8 and so I wanted to let you, the EPEL maintainer, know what's coming.

I'm preparing pybind11 for a new Python stack in RHEL, so it will not conflict in name or files with your subpackages `python2-pybind11` and  `python3-pybind11` (for Python 3.6) because their files are namespaced with the Python version.

However, as the pybind11-devel package has files that are not namespaced with the Python version, the devel package in RHEL *will* conflict with the files of yours. I have added a conflicts tag so this is handled properly by yum.

The most important thing to note is that the RHEL pybind11 packages will be in a non-default stream of a module in the CRB repo. Users will have to enable both the CRB and the module/stream explicitly to see the packages.

Therefore, I belive you don't need to take any action and can keep your package as is, even after pybind11 is released in RHEL.
The relevant guidelines rule [0]:
"In EPEL8 or later, it is also permitted to provide an alternative non-modular package to any package found only in a non-default RHEL module."

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#Policy

All the best, and let me know if you have any questions,
Tomas Orsava
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