[EPEL-devel] Re: EPEL2RHEL - New Wording? - New Workflow?

2023-03-27 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 7:22 PM Troy Dawson wrote: > I see your point. It sometimes also happens when the EPEL package is a > dependency of the important package, the customers aren't actually asking for > the EPEL package. While I am sure that occasionally RH chooses to add a package to

[EPEL-devel] Re: EPEL2RHEL - New Wording? - New Workflow?

2023-02-19 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 9:33 AM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > It would be really nice if the wording of the bug could contain some > kind of a "thank you" note to the EPEL maintainers of the package in > question. Not everyone will understand this process as "great, I don't > have to

[EPEL-devel] Re: Thoughts: epel-release auto-enable crb repo

2022-06-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 8:52 PM Troy Dawson wrote: > What do others think? Almost everything *I* care to do with el eventually needs epel and/or CRB/Powertools. I also do not think CRB/Powertools should be auto-enabled by epel (epel does not own them, and should not touch them). And, yes, a

[EPEL-devel] Re: SPDX identifiers in old branches?

2022-05-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 12:47 AM Maxwell G wrote: > I don't follow. What "rpm spec file support" are you referring to? I interpreted the proposal as adding a new stanza SPDX: in addition to License: which requires changing the definition. The follow up suggested that the license field be

[EPEL-devel] Re: SPDX identifiers in old branches?

2022-05-24 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 11:29 PM Chris Adams wrote: > Would it make sense to make ALL the new tags be SPDX:, at least for > an interim period (of years most likely) where both old and new tags are > allowed? I don't think that is going to work unless the rpm spec file support would be

[EPEL-devel] Re: Default for 'dnf copr enable'

2022-04-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 1:37 PM Miroslav Suchý wrote: > Can you please tell me what is good default for you: > > Centos Stream 9: > 1) epel-9-$arch > 2) centos-stream-9-$arch > 3) centos-stream+epel-next-9-$arch > 4) no default, print error and let user explicitly declare the chroot As someone

[EPEL-devel] Re: slowing down the stalled request process

2022-03-30 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 5:03 AM Carl George wrote: > > However, despite the good intentions, I've observed some frustrations > among Fedora packagers when collaborators are added via this process. > We do not want maintainers to feel rushed or circumvented. That said, > I am firmly of the

[EPEL-devel] Re: Does EPEL 9 maintain upgrade path from EPEL 8?

2022-02-20 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 8:21 PM Miro Hrončok wrote: > Once I remove the Obsoletes line from Fedora, should I worry about merging > that > commit to the epel9 branch or not? Logic dictates that the Obsolete should > remain in EPEL 9 forever, but I wonder if there is a policy/rule of thumb. >

[EPEL-devel] Re: State of EPEL mock chroots?

2022-02-04 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 2:05 PM Richard Shaw wrote: > So most of them work, but not EPEL. That specific example is being tracked in RHBZ #2049024 The discussion started back in November 2021

[EPEL-devel] Re: Revisiting policy for limited arch packages?

2022-01-31 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 4:55 PM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > The limited arch policy we had for epel7 had a number of problems. > At first we just said 'rebuild the exact rhel version' and then we > switched to 'add a 0 to release so the rhel package always gets > installed in favor of it'. It

[EPEL-devel] Re: The incredibly shrinking RHEL

2022-01-15 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 6:29 PM Orion Poplawski wrote: > I don't buy any of these arguments, and it doesn't really address the > situation of "missing -devel" packages. The missing devel packages for shipped libraries are a clear pain point for those that just want build something for their EL

[EPEL-devel]Re: Libcec rebase for epel7 – incompatible upgrade?

2022-01-11 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 6:39 PM Andrew Bauer wrote: > I’ve read the EPEL documentation regarding incompatible upgrades, and I am > not entirely sure this falls under that category. Yes, it is a major version > upgrade, but it is unclear to me if that makes it “incompatible”. As I recall, v3

[EPEL-devel] Re: EPEL 9 branch?

2021-12-05 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 4:09 AM Kevin Fenzi wrote: > yes, yesterday. > > See the announcement: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/5UJSW3FBGQMLXWWV7BGHWZTOFLH4NH3G/ *sigh*. Sorry, I missed it (I think I need to add yet another mail list