Bug 1281995

Summary: Rebase salt packages to 2015.8.1
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Louis Abel <tucklesepk>
Component: saltAssignee: Clint Savage <herlo1>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Louis Abel 2015-11-14 01:56:24 UTC 
Description of problem:
The version of saltstack in EPEL is at 2015.5.1. This is 3 versions behind the current stable version. Some sites whom use saltstack do not want to fall into a dependency hell with untrusted repos, maintaining a system with several repos, or maintaining their own internal repo.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2015.5.5-1


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install salt-master

Actual results:
Installs 2015.5.1 version of Salt.


Expected results:
Version 2015.8.1 installed.

Additional info:
I have not received any responses from the person in the changelogs about this. I'm assuming he's the maintainer, or a new maintainer should take over the packaging of salt.
Comment 1 Erik Johnson 2015-11-14 05:15:07 UTC 
Salt 2015.8.0 and newer requires pycrypto 2.6.1, which is the reason for the lack of update, as was the fact that we now maintain our own package repository. It seems, however, that there is a python-crypto2.6 package that should provide this dependency for EPEL6, so I will look into modifying the spec to use this package instead.

On a side note, I did reply to you a mere 20 minutes after you sent your email, and I find it a bit insulting that you would mention that you have not received any responses, as if I had ignored you.

Furthermore, it's troubling that you would wait just 3.5 hours after inquiring on the status of the package before calling for someone else to take over maintainership of it. The policy for non-responsive maintainers is quite clear:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_policy#What_to_do_if_a_maintainer_is_absent
Comment 2 Louis Abel 2015-11-14 05:37:07 UTC 
I saw the page that talks about the saltstack repo. The version difference is what is mainly off-putting, thus the comment about maintaining several repos, or a repo that may be considered "untrusted" from an Enterprise point of view. 

Correct, I jumped the gun without thinking about it clearly. Your mail was filtered which puts me at fault. The fact I did not wait also puts me at fault. For this, I apologize.
Comment 3 Erik Johnson 2016-01-04 22:17:13 UTC 
The packages have been updated to 2015.5.8. Updating to the 2015.8 release cycle will not be possible as the python-crypto2.6 package in EPEL is not suitable for our needs, and the version of tornado required by Salt also exceeds that which is available.