Re: adding a package to Fedora's EPEL

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:07:28 -0400 Matthew Miller  wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 02:48:25PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > I am the packager for pdf-stapler in Fedora. I would like to make
> > this available on EPEL so that CentOS, etc users may benefit. How do
> > I do that?
>
> We have a general page on this for *users* who would like to request a
> package be added to EPEL, which I'll point to since this is the users
> list:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_a_Fedora_package_in_EPEL
>
> But since you are a packager, I'll save you a little bit of trouble and
> quote this part:
>
> If you are already a Fedora contributor, for your own package use the
>   standard procedures for PackageDB admin requests.
>
> ... which points to:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageDB_admin_requests#Additional_branches_...
>
> and to
>
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb

Thank you for this: this information was very useful.

I have put in my request: while I was at it, I also put in a bunch of requests for EPEL 7 packages for some of my favorite light-weight software. We shall see what happens with the requests.

Best wishes,
Ranjan