Fedora EPEL Package Build Report 2009-04-21

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:08:05 -0500
Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:52:25 am Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > On 04/21/2009 10:11 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > > On 04/21/2009 12:21 PM, buildsys at fedoraproject.org wrote:
> > >> Packages built and released for Fedora EPEL testing/5: 8
> > >>
> > >> NEW glib-1.2.10-32.el5 : A library of handy utility functions
> > >> NEW gtk+-1.2.10-68.el5 : The GIMP ToolKit
> > >> NEW imlib-1.9.15-11.el5 : An image loading and rendering library
> > >> for X11R6
> > >
> > > Why are these packages going into EPEL? These seem to be clear
> > > violations of the EPEL "Guidelines and Policies":
> >
> > IIRC RHEL 5 does not include gtk 1 as opposed to 2. What violation
> > do you see?
> glib and gtk+ are in rhel. i will remove them now
> 
> imlib is not

I recently became the maintainer of glib/gtk+ and there were already
EL-5 branches there. As I was doing a bugfix update for imlib I thought
I'd freshen up glib/gtk+ whilst I was at it too.

Those branches need to be marked dead. I'll do that.

Paul.