Bundle a newer version of a python library for a point release?

[Jon Ciesla]

  On 08/20/2010 01:42 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:58:24 -0700
> Jesse Keating<jkeating at j2solutions.net>  wrote:
>
>> Here is the situation.  In EPEL6 we'd like to ship Trac 0.12.  This is
>> the latest upstream release and since upstream tends to do db format
>> changes between releases we'd like to start with the newest one and
>> run with it.
>>
>> However trac 0.12 requires python-genshi 0.6, and RHEL6(.0) will ship
>> with python-genshi-0.5.x.  I've put in an RFE to get that updated in
>> RHEL6.1.  There is good chance, but not a guarantee that this will
>> happen.
>>
>> One way out of this situation I see is to (temporarily?) bundle
>> python-genshi 0.6 with the Trac package, solely for the use of the
>> Trac package.  It'd require that Trac maintainers become bugzilla
>> watchers (somehow...) of python-genshi so that we can see any bugs or
>> updates and make sure they get applied if necessary.
> I think bundling is a bad idea.
>
>> I really don't want to ship trac 0.11 with EPEL6.  It won't likely
>> have a super long life upstream which would put us in a bad situation
>> of having to support it ourselves and try to roll security fixes for
>> it ourselves (which was !fun on older EPEL branches for older Trac).
>> The only other option I see here is to withold Trac from EPEL6 until
>> (maybe?) RHEL6.1 which also doesn't seem like a fun option.
>>
>> Looking for other ideas, or thoughts on the above.  Thanks!
> Submit a 'python-genshi-06' package and have track 0.12 use that
> instead of the base python-genshi?  You would need to of course make
> sure they could parallel install.
>
> kevin
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This would be my preference.

-J

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