Re: Self Introduction: Gonçalo Pereira

[Gonçalo Camelo Neves Pereira]

Hello Alain and Ian,

I definitely understand your struggle Alain, as an electrical engineer I 
also find myself dealing with this kind of problems, it is really 
frustrating. I have been using a self compiled 0.0.20-rc2 version of 
qucs without any problems but maybe for the fedora/epel repositories it 
is probably better to stick with the release version (0.0.19). What do 
you both think?

Also agree with you Ian, it makes sense that we find a more restrict 
mailing list and join our efforts. Regarding this, I am assembling a 
package for freehdl and I am not sure if fedora has a place to store my 
(incomplete) work so other developers, like you, can look at it and help.

Well I chose to package freehdl despite being dead upstream because the 
change to ghdl is only due to the 0.0.21 release 
(https://github.com/Qucs/qucs/issues/830) and that is probably one year 
away from now. This way, in the mean time fedora/epel users could have 
access to qucs from the repositories.

One final question, I have managed to compile freehdl using a patch file 
from the maintainer of freehdl on Arch Linux repositories 
(https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/build-fix.pat...),

how can I mention the packager so I can give credit to him and not take 
it as my own?

Best Regards,
Gonçalo Pereira

On 3/8/20 7:26 PM, Ian McInerney wrote:
>  There is a list for the electronics lab, but it looks like it is 
>  inactive currently: 
>  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail].... 
>  Perhaps we could revive it for coordinating this and other packages 
>  that are electronics related.
>
>  -Ian
>
>  On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 7:06 PM Alain Vigne <alain.vigne.14(a)gmail.com 
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>      Hi,
>      I am Alain, co-maintainer of Qucs, because I proposed to help
>      Geoffrey with Fedora Electonic Lab related software.
>      I saw Qucs was FTBFS, and planed to update to "latest" 0.0.19, or
>      0.0.20-rc2 ?  But I did not dedicate enough time.   Sigh.
>      I am not an experienced packager, nor developer. Just an
>      Electrical Engineer...
>
>      I am not sure a revival of freehdl is a good idea, as the project
>      seems dead upstream.
>      How familiar with those software are you ? Did you subscribe to
>      the Qucs dev list ? Did you contact upstream already ?
>
>      I wonder if an "Electronic Lab" mailing list exists ? and if such
>      discussions could better happen there, and not disturbing all
>      Fedora devs...
>      Else, I propose to start a private thread of some sort.
>
>      Kind regards
>      Alain
>
>
>      On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 5:55 PM <goncalo_pereira(a)outlook.pt
>      <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>          Thank you for the update on the status of the qucs package.
>          I will try to create a package and if that goes well I will
>          get back to you.
>          Best Regards,
>          Gonçalo Pereira
>
>          On 8 Mar 2020 16:42, Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney(a)ieee.org
>          <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>              Unfortunately, Qucs appears to be in a problematic state
>              right now. There are two main issues with it:
>
>              1) It has a requires on freehdl, but freehdl was orphaned
>              a year ago so it is not in F30/31/32.
>              2) It fails to build in F32, the Bugzilla entry seems to
>              suggest that this is fixed if Qucs gets upgraded to its
>              most recent version
>              (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1799962)
>              though, since it was fallout from the GCC 10 upgrade.
>
>              The issue with freehdl is that it needs to go through a
>              new review to get re-added to the repository (since it has
>              been over a year since it was orphaned).
>
>              The primary Qucs maintainer is Geoffrey Marr (I have CC'd
>              him in on this), so hopefully he can respond and say if he
>              has time to keep working on Qucs.
>
>              Probably the best place to start would be to revive the
>              freehdl package (so you will need to rewrite the spec file
>              and get it reviewed). If you want a co-maintaner, I can
>              help out since I have used Qucs for a while (but haven't
>              had to recently, so I didn't notice the breakage) - but I
>              can't sponsor into the packager group, so you would need
>              to find someone willing to sponsor you.
>
>              -Ian
>
>              On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 4:09 PM Gonçalo Camelo Neves
>              Pereira <goncalo_pereira(a)outlook.pt
>              <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>                  Hello!
>
>                  I am Gonçalo (gpereira). I am an electrical engineer
>                  so you can expect
>                  my contributions to be around those kinds of packages.
>                  My motivation to
>                  join was seeing the qucs package broken. I would like
>                  to dedicate some
>                  time to understand the spec file in order to maintain
>                  it. I believe this
>                  will be a good starting point to learn more about the
>                  fedora package system.
>
>                  By the way, is there anyone that tried this already?
>
>                  Best Regards,
>                  Gonçalo Pereira
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