On Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 10:06 AM Pino Toscano <ptosc...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Monday 2 December 2024 13:44:54 Central European Standard Time Miro > Hrončok wrote: > > On 30. 11. 24 17:48, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 11:08 AM Maxwell G <maxw...@gtmx.me> wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi everyone, > > >> > > >> It seems https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/subscription-manager (and > > >> related packages) were orphaned last week. subscription-manager is > > >> needed in Fedora to support > > >> https://rpm-software-management.github.io/mock/Feature-rhelchroots.html > > >> (Mock builds for EPEL in RHEL chroots) and UBI podman containers > > >> (including fedrq's rhel8 and rhel9 containers) for users with Red Hat or > > >> free Red Hat Developer subscriptions. This package will be retired from > > >> rawhide in 6 weeks if nobody takes action, which would be unfortunate. > > >> > > > > > > I took it for now, but we need someone to actually care about the > > > package. It looks like this is one of those packages where it's > > > "maintained" by packit and ignored by its actual maintainers. > > It seems to me that @ptoscano (a co-maintainer) actually takes care of this > > package. > > That is correct. The point of having packit is to simplify the build > and deployment of new versions of subscription-manager in Fedora, and > there is still the human (= me) approving the PRs from packit in pagure. > > > Wouldn't it be better to let the co-maintainers take the package instead of > > jumping the gun and taking it "for now"? >
This is not the first time it has happened with packit-managed packages. Better to not let them get retired due to absent maintainers when they are critical. > I noticed the orphaning one week ago or so, and I haven't had the time > to get into the process of un-orphaning it. I see Neal took it, so if > he wants he can pass it over to me. > Done. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ 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
