On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:14:54PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:

Hi, everyone:

I'm current maintainer of python-setuptools in Fedora, and also in EPEL. Seeing as (an older version) of python-setuptools is now also provided by RHEL-5.2, I'm a bit confused as to what the procedure should be for updating the package in EPEL. I believe the policy is that no package in EPEL should be clashing with RHEL proper, but what to do when "we were there first?"

Aside from the practical need for doing somethingin that case, there is an obvious lack of communication between RHEL and EPEL. It is good in one sense, that is EPEL is truely independent and on par with other add-on repositories, but sometime it is annoying. I have a different issue with lesstif/openmotif and how to package them such that it is easier to have an implementation indepedence, but the RHEL maintainer never answered my mails.

-- Pat