Hey there,
I noticed that the i3 window manager wasn't available in EPEL8. Before trying to go through the process of becoming a package maintainer I decided to try and run it via copr to see how much modification was needed. For EPEL8 (as opposed to 7) I was able to take the current spec file and, after creating an EPEL8 copr repo for xcb-util-xrm (https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/djotaku/xcb-util-xrm/), it would build. But it wouldn't install for it needed some perl packages. So I set about building those. You can see how far I got in (https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/djotaku/i3wm/packages/), but each one had one or more dependencies. So I was rapidly along a path towards having to recreate nearly all of Perl for EPEL8. (Only a slight exaggeration). Unfortunately, for those, I couldn't just bum the spec file because they each had a patch that needed to be applied. So I had to download the repo from pagure, use spectool and mock to create the srpm and then load that into copr. Quite tedious.
However, the good news is that I never had to make any mods to the spec files to get them to work for EPEL8. Everything just worked. So...what is the proper path to get the perl folks to create epel8 branches in their repos (again, there isn't any additional work needed - at least at this point in time)? In the long run, I'd definitely like to be a co-maintainer for i3 for epel8.
Thanks,
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Eric Mesa
Eric Mesa
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