Re: EPEL Packages in need of building for EL-6

[Paul Howarth]

On 01/07/10 09:40, [e-mail] wrote:
> Dear Package owner,
>
> On Monday June 28th at the EPEL meeting on IRC we agreed to an initial
> target date of August 15th for having all packages built for EL-6.
>
> This is a summary of EPEL packages for Enterprise Linux 6 that you own
> which have not yet been built.
>
> Owner: pghmcfc
> gtkwave

Current versions of gtkwave that I'd like to build in EL-6 use the Judy 
array library, which is not yet in EPEL. I wrote to the maintainer some 
time ago about this but haven't seen a response. The version of the 
library in Fedora isn't recent either, so perhaps the maintainer is 
AWOL. Haven't had time to investigate that yet.
> perl-Text-SpellChecker

This is built on Text::Aspell, which in turn is built on aspell. Whilst 
aspell is included in EL-6, it's only there for the purposes of building 
the hunspell dictionaries and there are no aspell dictionaries available 
(#590700). I think the way forward here is to bring aspell-en (at least) 
into EPEL-6. I don't know if the aspell-en maintainer is willing to do 
that themselves yet. I did look at the Text::Hunspell module as an 
alternative approach but it's broken (CPAN RT#39824) and seems to be 
dead upstream (upstream doesn't know how to fix it anyway), which is a 
shame given that it's the official perl binding of hunspell.

Paul.

EPEL Packages in need of building for EL-6

[Mark Chappell]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> > Owner: pghmcfc
> > gtkwave
>
> Current versions of gtkwave that I'd like to build in EL-6 use the Judy
> array library, which is not yet in EPEL. I wrote to the maintainer some
> time ago about this but haven't seen a response. The version of the
> library in Fedora isn't recent either, so perhaps the maintainer is
> AWOL. Haven't had time to investigate that yet.

Current EPEL branching policy seems to be put in a request for the
branch against the Fedora package, if there's no response within a week
or so then make the CVS Change Request and reference the ticket.
> > perl-Text-SpellChecker
>
> This is built on Text::Aspell, which in turn is built on aspell. Whilst
> aspell is included in EL-6, it's only there for the purposes of building
> the hunspell dictionaries and there are no aspell dictionaries available
> (#590700). I think the way forward here is to bring aspell-en (at least)
> into EPEL-6. I don't know if the aspell-en maintainer is willing to do
> that themselves yet.

The question of packages like this has come up, the optional repos seem
a little haphazard if you don't realise that much of what's in there is
to support BuildRequires for packages in RHEL-6, this includes at least
1 noarch package which is a build dep for some of the x86_64
virtualisation tools.  But as a build dep only for x86_64 it's only in
the x86_64 repos.
> I did look at the Text::Hunspell module as an
> alternative approach but it's broken (CPAN RT#39824) and seems to be
> dead upstream (upstream doesn't know how to fix it anyway), which is a
> shame given that it's the official perl binding of hunspell.

Probably the fun game of a full rewrite required, ergh!

Mark