Dear Fedora Developers,
Thanks for your work in developing and maintaining such a useful Linux
distribution!
I'm relatively new to open source development and am trying to make my first
contributions. Basically, I'm hoping to package some dependencies
for the `nix and `guix package managers in fedora.
To give a bit of backstory, in the past both package managers have depended on
nscd[1], which has been recently removed from glibc. Since it had been marked for
deprecation in glibc, distributions have been removing their reliance on it's
functionality [2].
There has been some discussion on the guix mailing list about possible
replacements for nscd. A popular suggestion is to transition to nsncd,
a program written in rust that provides similar functionality. Following this
dicussion I volunteered to package nsncd for fedora. I've started the process by
packaging some upstream dependencies.
This is my first attempt at contributing packages to fedora (or any distro for
that matter!). Fabio Valentini has been very helpful in providing some guidance
and reviewing my initial bug report[3].
I'm a little bit unsure of the next steps are for having the package accepted.
I would welcome any further advice or guidance that you could provide.
With kind regards,
Adam
[1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Name-Service-Switch
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveNSCD
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi
--
Adam McCartney - https://admccartney.mur.at
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