Dear all,

I'm proposing that we retire python-django in EPEL 7 and EPEL 8

The versions are really old and no longer supported; see https://www.djangoproject.com/download/

EPEL 7: 1.11.27 EPEL 8: 2.2.24

There are a lot of CVEs open, and upstream only patch the versions that are still supported, understandably: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&classificati...

For EPEL 8, python-django3 is a suitable replacement: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-django3 - it reaches end of extended support in April 2024 though.

It tracks the 3.2 LTS branch. python-django4.2 will be made available as well for Fedora, EPEL 9 and EPEL 8.

I currently don't plan to make a replacement Django available for EPEL 7, but if you need it, please reply to this email.

This proposal is open for discussion for a week, and will be reviewed at the next EPEL meeting, per https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-policy-retirement/

Best regards,