Bug 2036838

What if I give you the permissions to maintain it in the epel9? Would that work for you?

By the way, I see that it'd require to branch and build also some of its dependencies like colorama, shtab, and possibly more. If you want to lead that effort, could you please check all its dependencies (run/build) and open respective bugzillas for them?

I'm afraid I'm not a developer and have no experience building and packaging software. But I have attempted to chase down missing dependencies for tldr and file bugs for those, based on the tldr dependencies in Fedora 35 Workstation. These dependencies may need to be verified for CentOS Stream 9/EPEL 9.

python3-colorama : Bug 2036936

python3-shtab : Unable to find this component on Bugzila for Fedora/EPEL9 

python3-termcolor: Bug 2036938 (The EPEL9 component is listed as 'python-termcolor'

Let me know if I need to provide further information, or file additional bugs. 

-Phil

I can work on tldr for epel9.

About deps, I maintain two of them:

python3-shtab: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-shtab I already requested the epel9 branch, but feel free to open a BZ to track it.

python3-termcolor: Bug 2036938 closed as dupe of 2032219, already built for epel9.

Ok, from the runtime perspective, it seems that termcolor is already there, shtab will be there soon. But colorama seems to be retired from Centos Stream 9 so it needs to be packaged for epel9 as well: https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/python-colorama/-/blob/main/dead.package

Also, the list of build-time dependencies is much longer:

make
pyproject-rpm-macros
python3-devel
python3dist(colorama)
python3dist(packaging)
python3dist(pip) >= 19
python3dist(pytest)
python3dist(pytest-runner)
python3dist(setuptools)
python3dist(shtab)
python3dist(sphinx)
python3dist(sphinx-argparse)
python3dist(termcolor)
python3dist(toml)
python3dist(wheel)

But it should be possible to shorten it if you disable tests and the build of documentation.

FEDORA-EPEL-2022-4d0ce9dbe1 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 9. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-4d0ce9dbe1

FEDORA-EPEL-2022-4d0ce9dbe1 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-4d0ce9dbe1

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

I was about to test the update and install tldr on C9S but a problem appeared. The dependency chain is tldr → python3-sphinx-argparse → python3-sphinx but python3-sphinx is available only in CRB[0]. Is this expected?

If I install the two packages from the update with CRB repo enabled, it brings ~12 packages from CRB. The problem is that the CRB repo is disabled by default.

[0] https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/release-engineering/comps/-/blob/main/comps-centos-stream-9.xml.in#L3719

It is expected that EPEL packages may pull in dependencies from CRB. In fact, a tool "crb" has been added to the epel-release package to make it straightforward to enable the CRB repo:

https://pagure.io/epel/issue/128

Thanks, Paul, I didn't know that!

FEDORA-EPEL-2022-4d0ce9dbe1 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.