On Sat, 1 Aug 2020, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> B) epel8-playground is meant for future RHEL/CentOS testing, and
thus
> everything built in epel8-playground get's built off CentOS Stream.
> We would continue the "build on both epel8 and epel8-playground" and
> this would make sure packages would be able to build on the newer
> RHEL.
I find this less compelling because stream changes are supposed to be
minor release changes, so typically not abi/api breaks or big version
updates. In general epel8 stable packages should keep working fine when
the next minor 8.x release comes out, so I don't know that this would be
particualrly valuable.
We have had a python update which affected a lot of package,
and TUV have added lower versions of packages already in EPEL,
so the minor releases are not that trivial for packagers.
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