Interest in taking ownership of unison package

[Matthew Krupcale]

Hello all,

I am interested in taking ownership of the unison package [1]. The most recent discussion
on this topic of which I'm aware is from 2018-05 [2], which was attempting to bring
all of the various unison versions [3-5] packaged in Fedora into a single spec file. That
never happened, and those packages were retired in 2020-09.

Since then, as of version 2.52 (2022-03), unison has become considerably more forward and
backward version-compatible, not only between clients and servers of different unison
versions but also when compiled with different OCaml compiler versions, as explained in
the manual [6].

I have already done some test builds of this new package version on F38-F41 [7] and EPEL 9
[8] COPR and tested it on the latter. Debian stable already appears to have unison v2.52,
and testing has v2.53, so this should also work well with Debian [9].

Thoughts?

Matthew

[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison
[2]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail].o...
[3] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison213
[4] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison227
[5] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison240
[6]
https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/blob/5f07978c23d113b3ec8dbbd59d00e1e...
[7] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mkrupcale/unison/build/7331891/
[8] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mkrupcale/rhel-9-unison/build/733...
[9] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=unison

[Peter Boy]

>  Am 25.04.2024 um 04:19 schrieb Matthew Krupcale
> <mkrupcale(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  
>  Hello all,
>  
>  I am interested in taking ownership of the unison package [1]. The most recent discussion
> on this topic of which I'm aware is from 2018-05 [2], which was attempting to bring
> all of the various unison versions [3-5] packaged in Fedora into a single spec file. That
> never happened, and those packages were retired in 2020-09.
>  
>  . . .
>  
>  Thoughts?
>  
>  Matthew
>   
Hi Matthew,

Fedora Server WG would really appreciate your efforts very very much! Although we
haven't been able to discuss this yet, of course, I'm very sure. Unison is
currently a sadly missing building block when using Fedora Server as a file server. 

I had mentally registered that the Unison project, originally started as a research
project, had been abandoned to facilitate permanent use and that the Unison project had
been discontinued. This is obviously wrong, fortunately. Even if the developer group is
obviously very small. 

I hope you are successful with this project. I would like to make Unison one of the 
essential features of Fedora Server. 


Peter




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[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 02:19:36AM -0000, Matthew Krupcale wrote:
>  Hello all,
>
>  I am interested in taking ownership of the unison package [1]. The
>  most recent discussion on this topic of which I'm aware is from
>  2018-05 [2], which was attempting to bring all of the various unison
>  versions [3-5] packaged in Fedora into a single spec file. That
>  never happened, and those packages were retired in 2020-09. 
This is the latest email I think:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail].o...

But yes, looks like you've got most of the important references
already.

If you do re-add Unison, please let me & Jerry James know because
we'll have to add it to the list of OCaml packages that get rebuilt
whenever OCaml is updated.

>  Since then, as of version 2.52 (2022-03), unison has become
>  considerably more forward and backward version-compatible, not only
>  between clients and servers of different unison versions but also
>  when compiled with different OCaml compiler versions, as explained
>  in the manual [6]. 
About time!

Rich.

>  I have already done some test builds of this new package version on
> F38-F41 [7] and EPEL 9 [8] COPR and tested it on the latter. Debian stable already appears
> to have unison v2.52, and testing has v2.53, so this should also work well with Debian
> [9].
>  
>  Thoughts?
>  
>  Matthew
>  
>  [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison
>  [2]
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail].o...
>  [3] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison213
>  [4] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison227
>  [5] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/unison240
>  [6]
> https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/blob/5f07978c23d113b3ec8dbbd59d00e1e...
>  [7] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mkrupcale/unison/build/7331891/
>  [8] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mkrupcale/rhel-9-unison/build/733...
>  [9] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=unison
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[Matthew Krupcale]

>  If you do re-add Unison, please let me & Jerry James know
> because
>  we'll have to add it to the list of OCaml packages that get rebuilt
>  whenever OCaml is updated. 
I've packaged the latest upstream unison v2.53.5 in f39, f40, rawhide, and epel9
branches now [1-4]. For epel9, I had to disable the GTK package because we're missing
a few dependencies that I built in my copr [5]. So if we want the GTK interface on epel9,
we'll have to work to get those build dependencies packaged on epel9 as well.

[1] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-0cbf52347e
[2] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-1ff568ff2b
[3] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-2bcf96bfe1
[4] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2024-26c4a8b10d
[5] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mkrupcale/rhel-9-unison/builds/