Hey all, I am adding Benson as co-maintainer of Guile30. The help is very welcome, as i do not have really a lot of time to invest into guile right now.
Regards. On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 8:26 PM Paul Bolle <[email protected]> wrote: > Benson Muite schreef op zo 08-02-2026 om 07:47 [+0300]: > > Happy to co-maintain guile30 > > My FAS is fed500 > > That might help getting things unstuck! > > I made a similar offer shortly after starting this thread - ie. months > ago - but I apparently lack qualifications. Not sure, by the way, why > none of the maintainers of guile-dependent packages complained about > the current state of affairs... > > > 30.0.11 does seem to build on i686 > > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=142067348 > > Thanks for confirming! (I reported this two months ago. Nothing > changed.) > > > Expect i686 will be phased out of Fedora so probably no need to > > create an early exemption. > > My understanding is that Fedora will support i686 code, on some basic > level, for the foreseeable future. Anyhow, my suggestion to drop i686 > still stands because: > - upstream fixed the 32-bit build failure quite quickly, but never cut > a new release once the fixes were in; > - Fedora's guile-support is currently stuck. Focusing on 64-bit might > make it more likely that things finally get unstuck. > > (And, yes, I am still annoyed that I had to bisect the Fedora i686 > build failure only to discover this was already known and fixed > upstream for a long time. Pure busy work!) > > > Paul > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 8:26 PM Paul Bolle <[email protected]> wrote: > Benson Muite schreef op zo 08-02-2026 om 07:47 [+0300]: > > Happy to co-maintain guile30 > > My FAS is fed500 > > That might help getting things unstuck! > > I made a similar offer shortly after starting this thread - ie. months > ago - but I apparently lack qualifications. Not sure, by the way, why > none of the maintainers of guile-dependent packages complained about > the current state of affairs... > > > 30.0.11 does seem to build on i686 > > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=142067348 > > Thanks for confirming! (I reported this two months ago. Nothing > changed.) > > > Expect i686 will be phased out of Fedora so probably no need to > > create an early exemption. > > My understanding is that Fedora will support i686 code, on some basic > level, for the foreseeable future. Anyhow, my suggestion to drop i686 > still stands because: > - upstream fixed the 32-bit build failure quite quickly, but never cut > a new release once the fixes were in; > - Fedora's guile-support is currently stuck. Focusing on 64-bit might > make it more likely that things finally get unstuck. > > (And, yes, I am still annoyed that I had to bisect the Fedora i686 > build failure only to discover this was already known and fixed > upstream for a long time. Pure busy work!) > > > Paul > >
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