(thinking about) unretiring xmlbeans

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

xmlbeans [1,2] got retired because of lack of maitainers.
It's used by diffoscope now, so I'm thinking about adopting it.
Any major reasons not to? Fedora was at 2.6.0, upstream is now at
3.1.0, so it'd be definitely some effort to update...

[1] https://xmlbeans.apache.org/
[2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xmlbeans

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[Fabio Valentini]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 1:52 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
 wrote:
> xmlbeans [1,2] got retired because of lack of maitainers.
> It's used by diffoscope now, so I'm thinking about adopting it.
> Any major reasons not to? Fedora was at 2.6.0, upstream is now at
> 3.1.0, so it'd be definitely some effort to update...

Hi Zbigniew,

It looks like all its dependencies are still in rawhide, so I see no
reason not to revive it, especially if its still useful.
You'll need a re-review of the package though, since it's been retired
for more than 8 weeks.

I suggest you also unorphan one of its dependencies (saxon) before it
gets retired.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/saxon

Fabio
> [1] https://xmlbeans.apache.org/
> [2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xmlbeans
>
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[Mat Booth]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 12:52, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 
wrote:
> xmlbeans [1,2] got retired because of lack of maitainers.
> It's used by diffoscope now, so I'm thinking about adopting it.
> Any major reasons not to? Fedora was at 2.6.0, upstream is now at
> 3.1.0, so it'd be definitely some effort to update...
>
> [1] https://xmlbeans.apache.org/
> [2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xmlbeans

Huh, I thought this project was retired upstream.... I'm curious what you
need it for

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 05:05:46PM +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 12:52, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 
> wrote:
> > xmlbeans [1,2] got retired because of lack of maitainers.
> > It's used by diffoscope now, so I'm thinking about adopting it.
> > Any major reasons not to? Fedora was at 2.6.0, upstream is now at
> > 3.1.0, so it'd be definitely some effort to update...
> >
> > [1] https://xmlbeans.apache.org/
> > [2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xmlbeans
>
> Huh, I thought this project was retired upstream.... I'm curious what you
> need it for

It seems to be alive again, latest version was released a few months ago
(https://xmlbeans.apache.org/download/).
It's now under under the apache poi umbrella.

Some of the scripts in xmlbeans-scripts are used by diffoscope.
I don't know the details.

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