Bug 1761892

Summary:	No packages availables on epel release 8
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	bitchecker <bitchecker>
Component:	Package Review	Assignee:	Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	epel8	CC:	kevin, package-review
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Last Closed:	2019-10-15 16:46:18 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description bitchecker 2019-10-15 14:16:10 UTC

Description of problem:

There are so many packages that aren't available on epel-8 that was be available on epel-7:

For example:
- borgbackup
- rsnapsnot
- shorewall

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

epel release 8

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install epel release 8
2. Update packages list
3. Search for example provided packages

Actual results:

Nothing found

Expected results:

Found packages

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2019-10-15 16:46:18 UTC

EPEL is not a specific set of packages. It's a collection of packages which have maintainers willing to maintain them. We don't mass branch or build everything, maintainers are invited to build things as they are willing to support them. 

You can ask existing maintainers if they would like to support rhel8... just file a bug on the package and ask nicely.

Hope that helps!