How interesting, thank you. I have wanted to become a package maintainer for ten years and every few years I get a little closer.
Blaise On Sat, Nov 9, 2024, 5:41 PM Ben Beasley <c...@musicinmybrain.net> wrote: > Well, it’s possible that these packages will find a new primary maintainer > in Fedora: one of the current co-maintainers, one of the maintainers of the > mentioned dependent packages, or some other Fedora packager who has an > interest in them. > > If that doesn’t happen, and the packages end up being retired for the next > release of Fedora, then the best workaround if you were using the system > packages in your own work would indeed be to install from PyPI instead (not > system-wide, preferably into a virtualenv). > > Pure-Python libraries like this are usually packaged and maintained mostly > to support particular applications in Fedora (perhaps very indirectly) > rather than out of a desire to offer system versions of as many PyPI > packages as possible. > On 11/9/24 5:49 PM, Blaise Pabon wrote: > > Ben, > Thank you for your service! > > Would the workaround be to install from pypi instead? > Blaise > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2024, 1:44 PM Ben Beasley <c...@musicinmybrain.net> wrote: > >> I’m orphaning python-opentelemetry and the following related packages: >> >> - python-opentelemetry-contrib >> >> - python-opentelemetry-propagator-aws-xray >> >> - python-opentelemetry-resource-detector-azure >> >> - python-opentelemetry-sdk-extension-aws >> >> The packages are inherently messy, but are in good condition. However, >> they are a bit fussy to maintain, and I no longer maintain anything that >> relies on them, so I’m choosing to use my time elsewhere. >> >> This will affect python-elastic-transport, which depends on >> python3dist(opentelemetry-api) and python3dist(opentelemetry-sdk) from >> python-opentelemetry; and it will affect python-sentry-sdk, which >> depends on python3dist(opentelemetry-distro). >> >> Maintainers of those affected packages have received this email >> directly; so have co-maintainers of the orphaned packages. >> >> An update to the latest versions of python-opentelemetry and >> python-opentelemetry-contrib will require dealing with some issues >> around old protobuf and grpc versions in Fedora; see >> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-opentelemetry/pull-request/19. >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Fedora Code of Conduct: >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ >> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> List Archives: >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Do not reply to spam, report it: >> https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >> > > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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