On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:45:24AM +0000, LAHAYE Olivier wrote:
For docbook-utils-pdf, I don't understand why redhat did drop it,
and
I wonder how can EPEL publish only the missing part without breakage if
redhat updates the 1st half.
This is the burden of a downstream distributor. You never know what the
upstream breaks.
One way EPEL wants to solve it is repackaging the complete package as
a Modularity module and then providing it to users as a non-default module
stream so that users who need it can explictly enable it and consume the
packages from EPEL instead from CentOS/RHEL.
For perl-QT, Fedora-30 still ships it:
https://pkgs.org/download/perl-Qt (v4.14.3-17), but I know it's not well maintained.
It's there by a mistake. (A late Qt rebase broke it and nobody removed it from
the distribution.) It even cannot be installed.
-- Petr