On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM Jason L Tibbitts III <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>> Michael Adam <[email protected]> writes: > > > In fact, the package is orphaned/retired: > > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/wiki2beamer > > Note that it was retired because the last successful build was in 2023. > (I have no personal knowledge of this package; I just checked the > retirement reason and the build system to see why it was dropped.) It > has been retired sufficiently long ago that it will be treated as a > completely new package, and as such needs to go through all of the usual > package review procedure. > Thanks for the analysis. This makes perfect sense. > > > I would like the package to be resurrected in Fedora and would offer > > my help in(co-) maintaining it. > Fantastic! > > Have you managed to produce a buildable package? Unfortunately not yet: I used an old state of the rawhide branch (fedora 41 mass rebuild) but "fedpkg --release f42 mockbuild" failed on that. > That would be the > first step. Indeed. I'll keep trying to get it to build. > The second step would be to get post the package for > review. See > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Joining_the_Package_Maintainers/ > though of course you've done several of the initial steps of that > already. > > The only additional item in all of that, I think, would be an additional > step near the end of the process where you ask the releng folks to > unblock the package, since it had previously been removed from the > distribution. > > > Note that I am not a member of the packagers group yet (or any more). > > There's no need to worry about that until a working package has made it > through the review process. > > - J< > > Thank you very much for your input and your offer to collaborate on this package! Cheers - Michael
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