policy regarding pkg's migrating epel -> rhel

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Jun 5 13:15:59 UTC 2009


I'd like to ask the Steering committee to consider enhancing existing 
policy documents, namely,
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies
to explictly mention the case where packages migrate from epel -> rhel.

Case in point here is a mild contention with what to do with 
java-1.6.0-openjdk, where it recently moved into rhel, but is still 
currently in epel repos.  See also,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504189

I hope I don't put words into his mouth, but as I understand it,
Lubomir's contention is that the upgrade path issues should be 
considered a blocker to removing this from epel, ie,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499079

My current opinion is that these are orthogonal issues, but I'm curious 
what others think.  What say you?

-- Rex




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