Hi, On 22-Jun-25 10:23 PM, Otto Liljalaakso wrote: > I have orphaned the following packages I have been maintaining for DOSBox > Staging in Fedora: > > dosbox-staging (Provides: dosbox) > iir1 > mt32emu
Thank you for maintaining these packages up until now! > Already for long time, I have had very little time for retro gaming, and now > upstream has been (again) moving Git tags around and what I incorrectly > packaged as version 0.82.2 should be moved to what upstream actually means to > be 0.82.2 [1,2]. Fixing this probably only requires updating sources in the > lookaside cache and rebuilding, but indicates upstream practices that are > difficult for distro packagers to work with. Also, a build system rewrite is > looming in the near future [3] and new upstream maintainers' view distro > packaging negatively (see for example [4], note that this is an extreme > comment and there also more moderate, but still negative, voices in comments > below). So all in all, putting effort into this emulator does not make sense > for me, personally, anymore. If you need in and have the time available, its > yours to take! > > [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2374171 > [2]: https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/issues/4377 > [3]: https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/issues/4196 > [4]: > https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/pull/4186#issuecomment-2649287100 I've taken a look at the [4] discussion and it does not look all that bad, they expect distros to deal with issues caused by distros using different library versions then their official packages which sounds reasonable. As for the buildsystem changes, it seems they do plan to stick with cmake, but then combined with vcpkg which is a tool to download deps like e.g. pip does for python but then for C-code. Since Fedora will want to use systemlibs for most things I think that we don't need to care about the vcpkg thing. TL;DR: I think all in all things don't look too bad. So if their is someone who wants to step up and maintain this go ahead :) I've taken a look because I'm a user of dosbox myself, I don't really have time to maintain it. But I can offer my help now and in the future if you become the new maintainer and you get stuck on some issue. Regards, Hans -- _______________________________________________ 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
