pexepct is in RHEL and should be dropped from EPEL

Jeroen van Meeuwen kanarip at kanarip.com
Sun Jan 25 11:16:24 UTC 2009


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> 
>>
>> Red Hat GSS obviously takes advantage with EPEL, as they can often 
>> just grab a package from EPEL X to be included in RHEL X.Y+1 whenever 
>> they feel like it. I'm pretty sure they put enough QA effort in on 
>> such package, but meanwhile they do not even bother to notify the 
>> current EPEL maintainer(s). 
> 
> You are blaming the wrong people. GSS is just support people. They don't 
> involve themselves with maintaining packages or QA.
> 

Again, you only point out the wrong, not the right. Whoever it is or 
whatever the department is called, it's @redhat.com. GSS has the most 
benefit from getting it right, because they answer the phone when a 
customer is confused having packages from EPEL that are in RHEL. I think 
the message I wanted to send out was clear enough on it's own, 
regardless of getting all the acronyms and departments right.

-Jeroen




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