On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM Michael Adam <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM Jason L Tibbitts III <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> >>>>> Michael Adam <[email protected]> writes:
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>> > In fact, the package is orphaned/retired:
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>> > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/wiki2beamer
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>> 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.
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> Thanks for the analysis.
> This makes perfect sense.
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>> > I would like the package to be resurrected in Fedora and would offer
>> > my help in(co-) maintaining it.
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> Fantastic!
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>> Have you managed to produce a buildable package?
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> Unfortunately not yet:
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> I used an old state of the rawhide branch (fedora 41 mass rebuild)
> but "fedpkg --release f42 mockbuild"  failed on that.
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>>   That would be the
>> first step.
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> Indeed. I'll keep trying to get it to build.
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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



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>> The second step would be to get post the package for
>> review.  See
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> > Note that I am not a member of the packagers group yet (or any more).
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>> There's no need to worry about that until a working package has made it
>> through the review process.
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>>  - J<
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> Thank you very much for your input and your offer to collaborate on this
> package!
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> Cheers - Michael
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