is it possible to add ant-1.7.x to epel?

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 10.11.2008 21:57, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:48:13PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> For ant I'm not that sure if packaging a newer version is wise or not,  
>> as I'm not familiar enough with it. But I tend to say "that way lie  
>> dragons", as it's hard to draw the line where to stop with it --  
>> otherwise we soon get request to include openoffice3 or kde4 in EPEL...
> 
> I don't view it as an issue, as long as 
> * the upgrade path is right, that is the EPEL package is updated by the 
>   corresponding  RHEL/EPEL package in the next RHEL/EPEL release, 
>   which implies some coordination with RHEL/EPEL maintainers.

Well, such coordination in the EPEL past afaics often didn't work that 
well (just like it didn't in the Extras days when Extras maintainers had 
to deal with maintainers from Fedora Core).

> * the packages are stable enough for inclusing in EPEL, which is not the 
>   case for the 2 you mentionned, in my opinion, but is certainly so for 
>   ant17.

Well, the 2 I mentioned were (obviously) extreme examples. But as I 
said: where draw the line/where stop? People likely have good reasons 
for hundred other packages that are basically new versions of software 
that is already included in RHEL. I fear that the whole things could get 
quite messy over time.

Enough said. Just my 2 cent of course.

CU
knurd