Hi Eric, first and foremost sorry about not replying to the Bugzilla bug earlier, the past weeks were unfortunately a bit crazy. Eric Mesa <ericsbinaryworld@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. I'll be pretty blunt here: I don't really care about having i3 in epel8, so as long as you take care of the epel8 branch and any bugs that pop up: I'm more than happy to add you as a co-maintainer. Cheers, Dan
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