On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 03:09:32PM +0100, Thomas Spura wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm the maintainer of python-zmq and it would be nice, if I could use
> it also on el5, but I need python26 for that.
>
> Would it be ok, to use it and provide a python26-zmq or is an extra
> review request needed for that?
> Couldn't find any guideline, that forbits it, but there doesn't seem
> to be any naming guideline for el, isn't it?
>
There aren't proper guidelines for this but there is this page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Python26#Packaging_Guidelines_for_EPEL5
Here's the caveats: dmalcolm is in favor of combined packaging when
possible (ie, in the non-RHEL/EPEL split case) for packager convenience.
I'm in favor of split packages for the reasons given on that page.
It sounds like you're thinking python-zmq won't exist on EPEL6, only the
python26-zmq subpackage. With that in mind, only the bugzilla consideration
seems to apply.
python-zmq already is in EPEL6. It's missing in EPEL5 because
python2.4 is too old and not supported:
So
* python-zmq will never exist in EPEL5 (unless someone will fork
upstream and make it work with python2.4) or
* python-zmq will contain and provide python26-zmq or
* there will only be python26-zmq
The draft guidelines for EPEL5 don't cover this case...
(I would prefer the providing solution 2 above, unless someone objects...)
Greetings,
Tom