EPEL thoughts or views on packages deliberately left out of rhel?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 15:02, Jim Perrin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/29/2014 10:43 PM, s at shk.io wrote:
> > On 2014-04-30 06:57, Jim Perrin wrote:
> >> The RC for el7 specifically omits packages that have drawn interest in
> >> the past. A few examples of such packages would be kmail and pidgin.
> >>
> >> kmail is ordinarily part of the kde-pim suite, but is stripped from the
> >> final build via some 'rm' handiwork in the spec. Pidgin is omitted from
> >> the build via a check to see if the build host is rhel. The libs are
> >> used and included, but the binary is no longer produced.
> > 
> > In the pidgin case is libpurple the main thing that gets used in RHEL?
> > If so but it's under the 'pidgin' namespace then maybe a -bin package
> > could be provided via EPEL or some other means. Alternatively it might
> > make sense to file a BZ to have it moved under a different package name
> > altogether?
> 
> 
> Yes, libpurple seems to be the main thing needed/wanted. Important bits
> from the spec appear to be ->
> 
> %if 0%{?rhel} >= 7
> %global build_only_libs         1
> %global api_docs                0
> %endif
> 
> 
> %if %{build_only_libs}
>     SWITCHES="$SWITCHES --disable-consoleui --disable-gtkui"
> %endif
> 
> 
> %if ! %{build_only_libs}
> desktop-file-install --vendor pidgin --delete-original              \
>                      --add-category X-Red-Hat-Base                  \
>                      --dir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications  \
>                      $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications/pidgin.desktop
> %endif
> 
[snip - about kmail]
> 
> I guess I have two specific questions for this.
> 
> 1. Can epel track and provide the same source versions of packages that
> RH provides for RHEL?
> 2. Is the demand worth the effort?

I'd be interested in the pidgin package. However, current package in
RHEL7 disables Gadu-gadu support in libpurple, which is a deal-breaker
for me. I filed a bug[1] about it, but if it's not fixed, I'll be rolling
my own packages anyway.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064053

Regards,
Dominik
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