Bug 1313438

Summary:	autoconf-archive RPM missing in RHEL 6
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Assen Totin <assen>
Component:	autoconf-archive	Assignee:	David King <amigadave>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	el6	CC:	amigadave, ben.harper, fan.du, praiskup, t.matsuu, wtogami
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Description Assen Totin 2016-03-01 15:29:34 UTC

Description of problem:
The autoconf-archive RPM package is missing from RHEL-6, although it seem to have been there (and even in EPEL for RHEL5). Package is present in EPEL for RHEL7 and recent Fedora versions.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum makecache
2. yum search autoconf-archive

Actual results:
No RPM found.

Expected results:
RPM should be present. 

Additional info:
autoconf-archive is a set of autoconf macros which are essential for software developers, e.g., AX_PTHREAD (why is this not in glibc-devel is another mystery). Without a macro like this it is impossible to autoconf any package that uses libptheard (i.e. most of the modern networked services or applications).

The RPM and SRPM lists do not show this RPM also:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/SRPMS/repoview/letter_a.group.html

The autoconf-archive is present for RHEL7 and recent fedora versions (at least 21-23) and it seemed to have been present for RHEL5 and 6 - e.g., see #1122747 .

Comment 1 David King 2016-03-01 15:41:46 UTC

autoconf-archive for EPEL 6 and 5 was orphaned and retired in late 2014:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/autoconf-archive.git/commit/?h=el6

If you want it for older EPEL than 7, you will need to find a maintainer for those branches, or become one yourself.

Comment 2 Fan Du 2016-06-30 03:28:20 UTC

(In reply to David King from comment #1)
> autoconf-archive for EPEL 6 and 5 was orphaned and retired in late 2014:
> 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/autoconf-archive.git/commit/?h=el6
> 
> If you want it for older EPEL than 7, you will need to find a maintainer for
> those branches, or become one yourself.

Hi
Is there any equivalent of autoconf-archive in Redhat7?

I got missing to find some MACROS which autoconf-archive contains.

Comment 3 Fan Du 2016-06-30 03:29:35 UTC

oh, may I ask why it's orphaned?
Thanks!

Comment 4 Pavel Raiskup 2016-06-30 08:49:22 UTC

(In reply to Fan Du from comment #3)
> oh, may I ask why it's orphaned?
> Thanks!

I believe nobody volunteered in EPEL to continue with packaging.  I believe
actual maintainers would be OK if you offered a help here with packaging?

Comment 5 bharper 2017-08-01 20:47:45 UTC

Seeing that EL6 is in production 3 phase (only critical security patches), I have mixed thoughts about reintroducing a package.  That being said, the current Fedora SRPM does successfully build on EL6.  Given the low update cycle, it might only be updated a few times before EL6 goes EOL.

Comment 6 Ben Cotton 2020-11-05 16:53:18 UTC

This message is a reminder that EPEL 6 is nearing its end of life. Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for EPEL 6 on 2020-11-30. It is our policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a 'version' of 'el6'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later EPEL version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before EPEL 6 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Comment 7 Ben Cotton 2020-11-05 16:55:55 UTC

This message is a reminder that EPEL 6 is nearing its end of life. Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for EPEL 6 on 2020-11-30. It is policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a 'version' of 'el6'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later EPEL version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before EPEL 6 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version, you are encouraged to change the 'version' to a later version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Comment 8 Ben Cotton 2020-11-30 14:56:55 UTC

EPEL el6 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2020-11-30. EPEL el6 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
EPEL please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you
are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the
current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this
bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.