On Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 10:06 AM Pino Toscano <ptoscano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Monday 2 December 2024 13:44:54 Central European Standard Time Miro Hrončok wrote: > > On 30. 11. 24 17:48, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 11:08 AM Maxwell G <maxwell@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi everyone, > > >> > > >> It seems https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/subscription-manager (and related packages) were orphaned last week. subscription-manager is needed in Fedora to support https://rpm-software-management.github.io/mock/Feature-rhelchroots.html (Mock builds for EPEL in RHEL chroots) and UBI podman containers (including fedrq's rhel8 and rhel9 containers) for users with Red Hat or free Red Hat Developer subscriptions. This package will be retired from rawhide in 6 weeks if nobody takes action, which would be unfortunate. > > >> > > > > > > I took it for now, but we need someone to actually care about the > > > package. It looks like this is one of those packages where it's > > > "maintained" by packit and ignored by its actual maintainers. > > It seems to me that @ptoscano (a co-maintainer) actually takes care of this > > package. > > That is correct. The point of having packit is to simplify the build > and deployment of new versions of subscription-manager in Fedora, and > there is still the human (= me) approving the PRs from packit in pagure. > > > Wouldn't it be better to let the co-maintainers take the package instead of > > jumping the gun and taking it "for now"? > This is not the first time it has happened with packit-managed packages. Better to not let them get retired due to absent maintainers when they are critical. > I noticed the orphaning one week ago or so, and I haven't had the time > to get into the process of un-orphaning it. I see Neal took it, so if > he wants he can pass it over to me. > Done. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
