Bug 1201807

Summary:	EPEL6 version of qwt?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Simon <simon0831>
Component:	qwt	Assignee:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	el6	CC:	rdieter
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Description Simon 2015-03-13 14:46:35 UTC

Description of problem:
Would it be at all possible for a recent version of qwt to be tagged for release in EPEL6?

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Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2015-03-13 14:56:54 UTC

Core RHEL6 already includes qwt-5.1.1-4.1.el6

(and by policy, epel cannot replace or update that)

Now, for fedora we had made efforts to make a qwt5 and qwt-6 packages parallel-installable, but I'm not personally willing to work on a new/different parallel-installable qwt6 (with qwt-5), and then come up with patches for all qwt consumers to adapt to that on older platforms (like el6).


I'll be happy to offer help, advice to anyone else willing to work on something like that though.

for example, here's the modifications to qwt5 we did, see:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/qwt5.git/tree/qwt5.spec

and look for section starting with:
# hacks for parallel-installability with qwt(6)

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2015-03-13 15:00:09 UTC

I guess WONTFIX fits better 

ie, I probably*could* do it, if I had ample time/interest, but I currently have neither, sorry.

Comment 3 Simon 2015-03-13 15:21:36 UTC

No problem, thanks for your quick and informative response.

Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2015-03-13 16:41:44 UTC

I could consider changing my mind, if there's some compelling use-case or reasoning you have?