[sword-devel] Fedora packager?

[Aaron Rainbolt]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

(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.)