Karel Volný writes: > > Hi, > > > My apologies in advance if this is the wrong place. > > I cannot think of any better :-) > > > I am the developper for Recoll, a full-text search application, which has > > been packaged for Fedora for a long time. > > > > I have a small but steady rivulet of users asking for CentOS or Enterprise > > Linux Recoll packages. In consequence, there are some CentOS 7 packages on > > the Recoll web site. It would be easier for the users and and for me if the > > Fedora package was maintained for EPEL instead. > > > > Any possibility that this could happen ? > > I see there already exists a bug for this: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422666 > > however it is assigned to the EL6 branch maintainer whom I expect to be > buried in other stuff (we have RHEL 7.4 around the corner ...) while the > Fedora maintainer, who looks quite reponsive, wasn't copied ... I understand the buried issue. I wrote to the Fedora maintainer first of course, and he does not wish to do EPEL packaging, hence my email to the list. > generally, some people maintaining packages in Fedora might be hesitant to > take care of EPEL as they don't run RHEL/CentOS ... it might help if you > (your community) would commit to testing/help with patching, which I > suppose wouldn't be a problem if you already maintain own packages No problem for helping with testing and solving issues, and I always make sure that distribution-specific patches (usually small build compiler-related issues) get into the main code as soon as possible. > also, you might become EPEL packager yourself :-) Yes, but really, developpers and package maintainers have different sets of competences, and I know that I have a very hard time switching between the roles. Memory not good enough. It's one thing to whip up a set of working packages, another to make sure that they are correct and in accordance with the distribution standards. Cheers, jf > K. > > -- > Karel Volný > BaseOS QE - Daemons > Red Hat Czech, Brno > tel. +420 532294274 > (RH: +420 532294111 ext. 8262074) > :: "Never attribute to malice what can > :: easily be explained by stupidity." > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
