On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 05:38:08PM +0000, David Allsopp wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > (I've added a few opam devs to CC) > > > > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 10:14:41PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > > > opam orphan 1 > > weeks ago > > > > I didn't notice that opam had been orphaned. This package is the tool > > used for source packaging of OCaml packages under $HOME > > (https://opam.ocaml.org/). > > > > I don't especially like language-specific tools for managing packages, > > because of the usual problems that have been widely discussed elsewhere > > and it's not profitable to rehash them again. This is my personal view. > > > > The question is if we want to keep this in Fedora or not? ie. As an > > official Fedora package versus something that opam maintainers would > > provide themselves as a download. > > Thanks for the heads-up - this very week I've wanted to see what could be done > to get opam into EPEL, so discovering it's orphaned in Fedora is a bit of a blow! > > We'd be happy to take on its maintenance. IIUC it needs to be readopted by August > when F35 is branched, or does an orphaned package get dropped earlier than that? > > FWIW, the aim from the OCaml Community perspective is that opam is installed and > maintained by the OS's native package manager, so we'd obviously prefer it to stay > that way. Would you like to become the Fedora packager for opam? You'll need to follow these boilerplate steps (it's not actually as complicated as it appears): https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers?rd=PackageMaintainers/Join and I can be your sponsor. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
