https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1980282
Bug ID: 1980282
Summary: Review Request: exaile - music player
Product: Fedora
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Component: Package Review
Severity: medium
Priority: medium
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
QA Contact: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
Classification: Fedora
Spec URL: https://grahamwhiteuk.fedorapeople.org/pkgreviews/exaile/exaile.spec
SRPM URL: https://grahamwhiteuk.fedorapeople.org/pkgreviews/exaile/
Fedora Account System Username: grahamwhiteuk
Description:
I would like to bring back and maintain the orphaned exaile package. Exaile is
a GTK based music player written in Python and was included in Fedora up to F31
at which point it was orphaned. I suspect it was orphaned because at that time
Exaile was still based on Python 2 and so the timing between Fedora dropping
Python 2 support and Exaile supporting Python 3 didn't match up [1].
I have contacted the previous maintainers [2], Christopher and Deji, to ask
whether they intend to continue maintenance and if they mind me taking over the
package. Christopher responded to say he has left the community and I've not
yet received a response from Deji.
I have also checked upstream [3] that the developers are happy for it to be
re-included in Fedora.
To build the latest packages, I started from the latest exaile.spec file [4]
most recently built for F31 and have made as few modifications as possible to
add support for Python 3 and update the dependencies to the required levels.
I've been running the package on my own Fedora 34 system for a couple of months
(since April) and it's working very well.
Note: I'm following the "New Package Process for Existing Contributors" [5]
guide as I'm not aware of any instructions specific to bringing back a
previously orphaned package.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetirePython2
[2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/exaile
[3] https://groups.google.com/g/exaile-devel/c/uUfDcTatuZs
[4] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/exaile/blob/f31/f/exaile.spec
[5]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/New_package_process_for_existing_contributors
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