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#323 Add selinux-policy-epel to the exception list of packages that have epel in their name
Closed: Approved by tdawson. Opened by tdawson.

Closed: Approved
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A while ago, the EPEL Steering Committee discussed and passed a policy on packages with epel in the name. (I currently cannot find the meeting minutes, please link them when they are found)
One thing discussed was what to do if a package truely was an epel only package.
If my memory was right, that package was supposed to get an exception from the Committee, and it would go on the exception list. This issue is to request that selinux-policy-epel be added to that exception list.

The reasoning for the exception:[1]
"The SELinux modules we dropped in selinux-policy-40.13.26-1.el10 are not related to any RHEL/CentOS Stream 10 package - https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-73505.

Because they were identified as related to packages shipped in EPEL I packaged them in selinux-policy-epel - I have not found a better name for epel related SELinux modules."

In the same discussion, the package maintainer said they are willing to change the name if a better one is found. I haven't found a better one, so I created this issue to help move things along.

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-release/pull-request/35
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2346531

This probably is the most appropriate name. I'm +1 to an exception for this, but would also be open to other name suggestions if anyone has any. This will make our list of exceptions as follows:

  • epel-release
  • epel-rpm-macros
  • selinux-policy-epel

There are some macro backport packages that include epel:

$ fedrq pkgs -b epel9 \*rpm-macros-epel
ghc-srpm-macros-epel-1.9.1-1.el9.noarch
ghc-srpm-macros-epel-1.9.1-1.el9.src
go-rpm-macros-epel-3.6.0.1-1.el9.src
go-rpm-macros-epel-3.6.0.1-1.el9.x86_64
go-srpm-macros-epel-3.6.0.1-1.el9.noarch
rust-srpm-macros-epel-26.3-1.el9.noarch

and forge-srpm-macros-epel has also been branched for epel10.

Metadata Update from @tdawson:
- Issue tagged with: meeting

The EPEL Steering Committee agreed unanimously to give selinux-policy-epel an exception and put it on the list of exception packages.

That was for that package only.

@gotmax23 Please open a separate issue for those others. They are all very similar and we might right some type of "macros" clause into the official policy, but it should be separate from this issue.

Metadata Update from @tdawson:
- Issue close_status updated to: Approved
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

This issue has been migrated to Fedora Forge:
https://forge.fedoraproject.org/epel/steering/issues/323

Please continue any further discussion there.
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