On 08/24/2016 11:39 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: I might be wrong, but I believe I have heard at Flock that Koji is actually trying to maintain support of EL5 still!

AL> Definitely, but it runs into the same problem as 3.4 on EL7, the AL> fact that there are few packages available and adding them when the AL> package already exists in RHEL requires creating a separate parent AL> package in Fedora pkgdb. Which is an annoying bit of process, but it would be quite possible to exempt those packages from needing package reviews. It needn't take that long. - J<

AL> Not needing reviews would help, but I wonder how hard it would be to AL> make them children of python-PACKAGE. The main issue is the SRPM AL> needs to have a different name so there is no conflict with the RHEL AL> SRPM. To be completely fair, I don't actually know EPEL policy here. The rule is that you can't conflict with RHEL packages, but SRPMs aren't really installed the same way as other packages and whether or not they would install to the same location depends somewhat on your personal .rpmrc. It's probably been discussed somewhere and I just don't recall, but it's definitely worth asking someone who can answer properly. - J<

AL> I'm curious if anyone else has any insight. Maybe it is worth AL> bringing up at a FPC meeting. That would more appropriately be a topic of an EPEL meeting, since this is purely an EPEL policy issue. - J<