[EPEL-devel] The incredibly shrinking RHEL

While working on EPEL9, it seems that even more packages are missing from RHEL9 than were in RHEL8. The latest I found was cppunit, which appears to be completely missing from the CS9 repos despite having been built (See https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=2414) and presumably in the CS9/RHEL9 buildroot. So I scraped some screens from pkgs.org: Stream 9: CentOS AppStream Official x86_64 8882 CentOS BaseOS Official x86_64 2357 CentOS CRB Official x86_64 1856 Stream 8: CentOS AppStream Official x86_64 15008 CentOS BaseOS Official x86_64 6721 CentOS PowerTools Official x86_64 3771 That's a pretty big difference. Now, I don't know how many were dropped completely and how many are of the "buildroot only" variety. But I suspect there is a fair amount of the latter and so a lot of make-work ahead of us for EPEL9. Packaging for EPEL9 is starting to feel more and more like cleaning the Augean stables with RedHat piling up more manure. -- Orion Poplawski he/him/his - surely the least important thing about me Manager of NWRA Technical Systems 720-772-5637 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane orion(a)nwra.com Boulder, CO 80301 https://www.nwra.com/