On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM Michael Adam <[email protected]> wrote:

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> 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.
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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





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> Now I'll read up on and try to complete the next steps on proposing a new
> package and getting added to the packagers.
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> Maybe there is already someone here who can't wait to sponsor me into
> packagers? ;)
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I guess I'll have to send a separate mail for this?...

cheers - Michael


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> 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.
>>>
>>> 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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