On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM Michael Adam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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. > I guess this is not the right way to try and revive it but I have created a PR with my build fix: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/wiki2beamer/pull-request/1 > > 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? ;) > I guess I'll have to send a separate mail for this?... cheers - Michael > > 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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