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
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