On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM Aaron Rainbolt <arraybo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > For a while I've been the basket holder for packaging the CrossWire related 
> > packages in Fedora. These include:
> >
> > biblesync
> > mingw-biblesync
> > sword
> > mingw-sword
> > xiphos
> > bibletime
> >
> > As I have not been a Fedora user in quite some time and do not stay abreast 
> > of the latest developments over there, I am left in a pretty reactionary 
> > position every time a new package rule comes out. For instance in the 
> > current month I have had to respond to issues with CMake 4.0 
> > incompatibility, changing the generated build files from make to Ninja, 
> > changing of the test runners, and changes in the CMake invocation process 
> > for several of these packages.
> >
> > Without a Fedora machine or frequent usage of these environments, this 
> > becomes a somewhat tedious process for me to resurrect a Fedora VM, 
> > re-learn all the Fedora packaging commands, etc.
> >
> > Is anyone an active Fedora user, approved packager, and wanting to take on 
> > these responsibilities? It would alleviate my mind quite a bit if someone 
> > else would take these on. Thanks!
> >
> > --Greg
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> I'm already a maintainer of Sword, Xiphos, and Bibletime in Fedora,
> and recently did a Xiphos update. I've seen the recent autogenerated
> bug reports and intend to handle them soon (probably next Saturday).
> I'd be happy to take BibleSync too if you'd like to add me as a
> maintainer. I don't have much interest in the mingw packages and am
> not sure how I'd test them.

(Just realized it sounds like you already tackled the CMake things...
I was going to do that... I don't usually respond to new reports
instantly since my work simply doesn't allow for it, but I was keeping
the bug reports marked as unread just so I could handle them this
weekend or some time around then.)
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