Dear all, In working to populate EPEL9 with packages we need at work that are missing from Stream 9, I stumbled upon a gray area: C9S' iptables has subpackages that are disabled by conditionals, and the delta between the C9S package and the EPEL package is tiny, and I initially thought this qualified as an `-epel` package that can bypass review, per
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-faq/#rhel_8_has_binaries_in_the_release_but_is_missing_some_corresponding__devel_package._how_do_i_build_a_package_that_needs_that_missing__devel_package Looking at systemd-extras, which is similar but in this case the C8S/C9S systemd package actively stripped some subpackages that are shipped in Fedora, I'm no longer sure though. Per discussion on IRC, it does seem that we actually have three cases: - shipping subpackages that upstream built but excluded from shipping (e.g. the case of missing -devel) -- use -epel in the short term, file a bug requesting it to be shipped in the long term - shipping subpackages that are disabled using conditionals, so it's trivial to reenable and rebase the EPEL package against the original going forward -- e.g. iptables-epel (?) that ships legacy subpackages - shipping subpackages that are hard-disabled in C8S/C9S (e.g. systemd-extras shipping networkd and timesyncd). I've filed an issue to bring up to next week's EPEL meeting, please send your suggestions there: https://pagure.io/epel/issue/134 Thanks! -- Michel Alexandre Salim profile: https://keyoxide.org/mic...@michel-slm.name
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