I just noticed this went to the the wrong mailling list.
Not many people are going to see this on epel-devel-owners.

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 7:02 AM Stephen Smoogen <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 10 May 2023 at 09:46, Troy Dawson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> For those EPEL maintainers deciding on whether to take this or not.
>> sscep looks like it is still maintained and active upstream.[1]
>> Although the request bug listed here looks new, there is a much older
>> duplicate bug requesting it. [2]
>> sscep has been orphaned and retired in Fedora, around F31.  The problem
>> with orphaning is that it doesn't tell you why it was orphaned.
>>
>
> Going from the emails I could find, it was the reason you outlined. At
> that time it was needing a version of openssl we were no longer going to
> support for security reasons.
>
>
>> But if we try to build the latest Fedora version on epel8, it's easy to
>> see that it requires compat-openssl10-devel.  In other words, at the time,
>> it wasn't compatible with the latest openssl.
>> That has been fixed upstream.
>> So whoever takes it will need to update the rpm to the latest upstream.
>>
>> I'm not trying to discourage anyone from taking this package.  It's
>> maintained upstream, so that's good.  I'm just letting ya'll know what will
>> be involved.
>>
>>
> Troy
>>
>> [1] - https://github.com/certnanny/sscep
>> [2] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1741770
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 5:00 AM Kiran Suresh <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear EPEL Community,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope this email finds you well. I am writing to request your assistance
>>> with SSCEP package for EL8, looking for a packagers who would like to
>>> package and maintain SSCEP package on epel..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We would like to request your help in addressing this issue so that we
>>> can proceed to utilize the package. If there are any packagers who would be
>>> willing to take over the maintenance of SSCEP package, we would be grateful
>>> for your support.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We have submitted a bug for this request, and have not received any
>>> response on this.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here are some additional details about package request:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bug ID: 2188992
>>> Link to Bug: 2188992 – Please branch and build sscep in epel8
>>> (redhat.com) <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2188992>
>>>
>>> Package name: sscep-0.6.1-5.20160525
>>>
>>> Purpose: Simple SCEP client
>>>
>>> Package for EL7: sscep-0.6.1-5.20160525git2052ee1.el7.src.rpm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If someone from the community could pick up this bug and work on it, we
>>> would be more than happy to provide any additional information or
>>> assistance needed to resolve the issue. We believe that this package would
>>> be a valuable addition to the EPEL repository and would appreciate your
>>> help in making it available to others.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for your time and consideration, and we look forward to
>>> hearing from you soon.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Kiran
>>>
>>> *Kiran Kumar Suresh*
>>>
>>> *TSS Infrastructure | *[email protected] *| Mobile: (203) 822 3689*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
> --
> Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive
> Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle.
> -- Ian MacClaren
>
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