V Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 04:47:33AM -0400, Neal Gompa napsal(a):
On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 4:41 AM Miro Hrončok
<mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 08. 07. 21 2:28, Mohan Boddu wrote:
> > Also, people who wish to opt out of this mass rebuild can add
> > 'noautobuild' file to the epel9-next branch beforehand, this however
> > does not stop from creating the epel9 branch, just the package won't
> > be included in the rebuild.
>
> I think there are 3 possible opt outs here:
>
> 1) The epel9-next packager does not intent to maintain the package in epel9,
> only in epel9-next. While we might not like this goes, as long as there is no
> policy against this approach, always creating the branch will create work for
> the packager they have not signed for. I think there should be an opt out for
> branching as well.
>
This is not a valid use-case.
Why?
If you were a CentOS user who moved to CentOS Stream, then you are going to
use epel9.next. You have no use of epel9.
-- Petr