On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have so far tackled all of the CMake ones (finishing up with Bibletime 
> right now) - although for libsword itself I don't seem to have rights to 
> commit directly anymore. But you should find a PR against that in Pagure.
>
> I've added you as an admin to biblesync as well, so you can respond to that 
> also.
>
> The MinGW packages are monumentally unimportant as they were to enable Xiphos 
> builds. However, due to its dependency on GTKHtml and GTK2 for Windows 
> builds, Xiphos still leverages Fedora 30's MinGW's packages. Newer MinGW 
> packages are just supposed to become a sub-package of the main package, but I 
> never went back to revisit these two as all the work we do with them in 
> Xiphos is on the ancient versions.
>
> Glad to know you're keeping your eyes on it. I'll happily relax from my 
> Bugzilla duties, then!
>
> --Greg
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM Aaron Rainbolt <arraybo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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Sounds good :) I'll fiddle with that soon and see if I can get
remaining issues fixed up.
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