Bug 1792625

Summary:	libssh2 needed for EPEL8
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Andrew Bauer <zonexpertconsulting>
Component:	libssh2	Assignee:	Paul Howarth <paul>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	epel8	CC:	djuran, kdudka, mvanderw, paul, rjones, xavier
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Description Andrew Bauer 2020-01-18 14:27:49 UTC

Description of problem:
Our friends from RedHat decided to remove libssh2 with the release of el 8.1:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1767908

This has broken vlc and xine-lib packages in RPMFusion, along with other packages that build against one of these, such as ZoneMinder.


Would the package maintainer please build libssh2 for EPEL 8 asap?


If the maintainer wishes, I am willing to build and maintain this package for el8.

FAS Account: kni


I am also part of the ZoneMinder upstream project. We just released a new version, but I cannot build it in RPMFusion until this has been resolved.

Comment 1 Kamil Dudka 2020-01-18 20:49:18 UTC

(In reply to Andrew Bauer from comment #0)
> Our friends from RedHat decided to remove libssh2 with the release of el 8.1:

libssh2 has never been a supported library in RHEL-8.  It was an internal dependency of the virt module only.

> Would the package maintainer please build libssh2 for EPEL 8 asap?

It makes sense to me.  Let's see what Paul thinks as the primary maintainer of libssh2 in Fedora.

Comment 2 Paul Howarth 2020-01-19 15:44:27 UTC

The dropping of libssh2 from RHEL 8.1 is actually a good thing because in RHEL 8.0 it was available in AppStream but without a devel package so it was (a) not buildable for EPEL and (b) not usable to build against.

I've no objection to building libssh2 for EPEL-8 but I can't do it at the moment because the database in Fedora Infrastructure (https://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/repo/json/pkg_el8.json) believes there's a modular libssh2 in AppStream and CRB, and fedpkg checks against this before requesting a branch. Hence it currently refuses to branch for epel8.

I have raised an infrastructure ticket about this:
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/8558

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2020-03-27 11:28:01 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2020-3681ce7474 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 8. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-3681ce7474

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2020-03-28 01:44:11 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2020-3681ce7474 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-3681ce7474

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2020-04-11 19:29:02 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2020-3681ce7474 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.