EPEL 5 vitality

[Leon Fauster]

Hi Manuel,

Am 06.12.2011 um 11:46 schrieb Manuel Wolfshant:
> On 12/06/2011 12:38 PM, Leon Fauster wrote:
> 
>> I just want to ask about the "vitality" of the EPEL 5 repo.
>> 
>> E.g.:
>> 
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repoview/libstatgrab.html
>> 
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repoview/libstatgrab.html
>> 
>> 
>> I thought that, if a package is in general also a EPEL package, then it is
>> build for all supported distributions.
> 
> 
> The packages are built depending on the will of their maintainers. IF ( and
> only if ) there is a maintainer, there might be a package. Therefore, depending
> on the interest of the maintainers, built attempts exist ( or not )


Thanks for this information.

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