Hi Michal, Looking through the past emails on the list, it looks like the Cinnamon desktop people stopped maintaining it for epel, back around the time we were branching things for epel8. I think more than being a co-maintainer, that you would be the epel maintainer.
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/3URMFE6D4AYY3B2PIS5KS6PVDJIADO2L/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/UEWQ7LPFYGCHXAGKS3YK2YPCLBCCNDSQ/ On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 12:53 PM Michel Alexandre Salim < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Leigh and Pat, > > (cc:ed epel-developers) > > I maintain the EPEL8 branch of nextcloud-client, and it has a > subpackage, -nemo, that's currently uninstallable because Nemo is not > built in EPEL8: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1982034 > > I checked the dependency trees, and Nemo and all the packages needed to > built it (cinnamon-desktop and xapps) are actually already branched, but > never released for EPEL8. nemo also has a runtime dependency on > cinnamon-translations. > > The latest version of xapps I can build is 1.6.10 from the F31 branch > (1.8 and above won't build), which limits the version of Nemo that > builds (I've just been trawling the spec history, so this might not be > 100% accurate) to 4.6.5 from the F32 branch. cinnamon-desktop's Rawhide > branch rebuilds fine and I have not tried cinnamon-translations but I > suspect it will be fine too. > > The question I have is... given all these packages are already branched, > presumably at some point there was a plan to bring Cinnamon to EPEL8. > > - Is that no longer going to happen, and if so, why? > - Are there concerns about having an older version of Nemo available in > EPEL8 (especially when it comes to potential security issues)? > > I'm interested in file managers in general, and would not mind > co-maintaining these set of four packages just to check them out, but if > there are valid reasons why they are not available then I will just > disable nextcloud-client-nemo when building on EL8. > > Thanks, > > -- > Michel Alexandre Salim > profile: https://keyoxide.org/[email protected] > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >
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