On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM Michael Adam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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. > I managed to get it to build now by adding a build dependency. Now I'll read up on and try to complete the next steps on proposing a new package and getting added to the packagers. Maybe there is already someone here who can't wait to sponsor me into packagers? ;) cheers - Michael > > > > > > >> 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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