Bug 1585248

Summary:	expat21-devel: remove expat-devel provides
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Carl George <carlwgeorge>
Component:	expat21	Assignee:	Orphan Owner <extras-orphan>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	el6	CC:	besser82, mattias.ellert, tmz
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Description Carl George 2018-06-01 16:01:45 UTC

Description of problem:
Currently expat21-devel has a virtual provides for expat-devel.  If you try to build an EL6 RPM on Fedora 27 via mock, mock shells out to yum-builddep to install the dependencies of the SRPM.  yum-builddep is actually a symlink to dnf-utils on Fedora 27, which resolves the expat-devel requirement to expat21-devel due to the virtual provides.  This causes problems for software that expects to find /usr/include/expat.h (expat21 moves it to /usr/include/expat21/expat.h).

I believe this is a violation of EPEL policy.

> EPEL packages should only enhance and never disturb the Enterprise Linux distributions they were built for.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
expat21-devel-2.1.0-1.el6

Comment 1 Todd Zullinger 2019-02-03 00:55:24 UTC

I ran into this today while running a scratch build of git for el6.  Had this been blocked and returned?  I haven't run into it before but it seems the virtual expat-devel provides have been in place since this package was added to epel.

I agree that the virtual provides should be dropped.  I almost filed that as a PR but it looks like there are also a number of security vulnerabilities in the package which should probably be addressed as well (or the package should be retired).

Comment 2 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2020-07-28 02:47:00 UTC

This package has changed maintainer in the Fedora.
Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2020-11-05 16:50:26 UTC

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Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2020-11-30 14:59:41 UTC

EPEL el6 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2020-11-30. EPEL el6 is
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