The package for edb, a GUI debugger application, has been orphaned in Fedora for many years: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/edb
I like this application and think it's useful, and would like to see it unorphaned. I have been building it in COPR at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/peoinas/edb-debugger/ for some time and just now updated my packaging configuration there to the newest version, 1.5.0, released a few days ago (though I am sure my spec files aren't up to mainline standards).
Unless some existing maintainer reading this mailing list becomes inspired to adopt this package, I would be interested in pursuing the packager sponsoring process in order to adopt or co-maintain this package. I would like some input, particularly from maintainers experienced in packaging Qt applications, on if this sounds like a good idea.
Best regards, Pekka Oinas
Pekka Oinas via devel wrote:
The package for edb, a GUI debugger application, has been orphaned in Fedora for many years: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/edb
I like this application and think it's useful, and would like to see it unorphaned. I have been building it in COPR at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/peoinas/edb-debugger/ for some time and just now updated my packaging configuration there to the newest version, 1.5.0, released a few days ago (though I am sure my spec files aren't up to mainline standards).
Unless some existing maintainer reading this mailing list becomes inspired to adopt this package, I would be interested in pursuing the packager sponsoring process in order to adopt or co-maintain this package. I would like some input, particularly from maintainers experienced in packaging Qt applications, on if this sounds like a good idea.
Given that this has been retired for more than 8 weeks (in fact, for way longer, more than 3 years), it needs a rereview anyway, see: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Retirement_...
So you can mostly just follow the usual process for getting sponsored: submit your specfile for review (but mention in the bug comments that it is a rereview for a retired package) and follow: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/New_Package_Process... until the point where you would request a new dist-git repository to be created. The repository already exists, so in this case, you want instead to request unretirement as per: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Retirement_... – but please only after you got sponsored and the review request got approved!
I hope this helps, Kevin Kofler