On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 4:37 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 04:33:28PM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 3:35 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 11:56:17AM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just noticed that the packages for the sevctl utility were orphaned.
> > > Its addition to Fedora was widely publicized at the time, because we
> > > were the first (?) distribution to include tools for working with AMD
> > > SEV. It looks like ckuehl left Red Hat (?), and their packages were
> > > orphaned as a result of that? It's hard for an "outsider" to
know or
> > > check what's going on inside Red Hat.
> >
> > Yes, unfortunately Red Hat employee changes aren't easily visible
> > to those outside Red Hat, except through inference such as the
> > orphaning you saw.
> >
> > > If those tools are still deemed useful (at least the upstream enarx
> > > project on GitHub seems to still be active), I'll pick up rust-sevctl
> > > and its dependencies for the Rust SIG.
> >
> > I'm likely to end up on the hook for sevctl in RHEL / CentOS stream
> > as part of our virtualization stack, so makes sense for me to be a
> > maintainer in Fedora too. I'm always happy if packages have more than
> > one maintainer though to remove single points of failure.
>
> Good to know. If you end up picking up those packages, feel free to
> add the Rust packages to the @rust-sig group.
Was there more than just the rust-sevctl package that is relevant
here ? (I've not thought about any build deps-chain yet)
According to
https://churchyard.fedorapeople.org/orphans.txt
There are five orphaned dependencies in addition to rust-sevctl itself:
rust-codicon orphan 0 weeks ago
rust-colorful orphan 0 weeks ago
rust-iocuddle orphan 0 weeks ago
rust-sev orphan 0 weeks ago
rust-sevctl orphan 0 weeks ago
Fabio