On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 04:49:08PM -0600, BJ Dierkes wrote:
From the log:
21:19:15 <stickster> so that engineers inside Red Hat understand they
need to be working with EPEL as an upstream
21:19:27 <derks> that's great
21:19:52 <stickster> The unanimous response I got from the folks I
talked to was, "Yup, we're doing that now, and will keep doing so"
This seems not to have worked for "python-setuptools", because when it
was added to RHEL, an older version that the on in EPEL was used. Also
the RHEL package does not provide "python-setuptools-devel". A related
ignored bug report is:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460631
For this package, it EPEL land it does not look better, as the CVS does
not contain a dead.package:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/python-setuptools/EL-5/
Also there seems to be no trace about the whole situation. Also it seems
that more or less any documentation regarding EPEL is not maintained,
e.g.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL contains a log of stale
content:
Latest report on
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Reports is from
2008, week 17
Also the "Getting a Fedora package in EPEL"[0] procedure is not in sync
with what CVS admins require, as they might require a confirmation that
a maintainer has been asked:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=243716#c15
But this is not what the procedure describes.
Regards
Till
[0]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_a_Fedora_package_in_EPEL