[sword-devel] Fedora packager?

[Aaron Rainbolt]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have so far tackled all of the CMake ones (finishing up with Bibletime right now) - although for libsword itself I don't seem to have rights to commit directly anymore. But you should find a PR against that in Pagure.
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> I've added you as an admin to biblesync as well, so you can respond to that also.
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> The MinGW packages are monumentally unimportant as they were to enable Xiphos builds. However, due to its dependency on GTKHtml and GTK2 for Windows builds, Xiphos still leverages Fedora 30's MinGW's packages. Newer MinGW packages are just supposed to become a sub-package of the main package, but I never went back to revisit these two as all the work we do with them in Xiphos is on the ancient versions.
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> Glad to know you're keeping your eyes on it. I'll happily relax from my Bugzilla duties, then!
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> --Greg
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> On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > For a while I've been the basket holder for packaging the CrossWire related packages in Fedora. These include:
>> > >
>> > > biblesync
>> > > mingw-biblesync
>> > > sword
>> > > mingw-sword
>> > > xiphos
>> > > bibletime
>> > >
>> > > As I have not been a Fedora user in quite some time and do not stay abreast of the latest developments over there, I am left in a pretty reactionary position every time a new package rule comes out. For instance in the current month I have had to respond to issues with CMake 4.0 incompatibility, changing the generated build files from make to Ninja, changing of the test runners, and changes in the CMake invocation process for several of these packages.
>> > >
>> > > Without a Fedora machine or frequent usage of these environments, this becomes a somewhat tedious process for me to resurrect a Fedora VM, re-learn all the Fedora packaging commands, etc.
>> > >
>> > > Is anyone an active Fedora user, approved packager, and wanting to take on these responsibilities? It would alleviate my mind quite a bit if someone else would take these on. Thanks!
>> > >
>> > > --Greg
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>> > I'm already a maintainer of Sword, Xiphos, and Bibletime in Fedora,
>> > and recently did a Xiphos update. I've seen the recent autogenerated
>> > bug reports and intend to handle them soon (probably next Saturday).
>> > I'd be happy to take BibleSync too if you'd like to add me as a
>> > maintainer. I don't have much interest in the mingw packages and am
>> > not sure how I'd test them.
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>> (Just realized it sounds like you already tackled the CMake things...
>> I was going to do that... I don't usually respond to new reports
>> instantly since my work simply doesn't allow for it, but I was keeping
>> the bug reports marked as unread just so I could handle them this
>> weekend or some time around then.)
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Sounds good :) I'll fiddle with that soon and see if I can get
remaining issues fixed up.