Bug 2179594

I'm the upstream maintainer of GCstar. The lastest version is 1.8.0 (https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar/-/releases). In https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar/-/tree/main/gcstar/packages/fedora , there is a recipe to build a RPM package but the dependencies need to be fixed.

Looks like the gang's all here. :-)

I remember trying out the upstream spec and having rpmlint errors and warnings.
I decided to take a shot at fixing them and then never got around to it.

Looks like it's time to give it another shot.

I modified the Gitlab CI recipes to create a generic RPM package https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar/-/packages/13986875 (using gcstar/packages/rpm/gcstar.spec). It can be used to install the new version of GCstar until it's updated as an official Fedora package. The Fedora recipe (gcstar/packages/fedora/gcstar.spec) is similar but relocate the libraries from /usr/lib/gcstar to /usr/share/gcstar : I don't know if it's a hard constraint.

Some Perl dependencies are missing on Fedora : MP3::Tag, Net::FreeDB, Ogg::Vorbis::Header::PurePerl. They should be installable with cpan but I don't know how it can be integrated in the RPM package.

Hope this helps.

(In reply to Kerenoc from comment #3)
> The Fedora
> recipe (gcstar/packages/fedora/gcstar.spec) is similar but relocate the
> libraries from /usr/lib/gcstar to /usr/share/gcstar : I don't know if it's a
> hard constraint.

We try to conform to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) to minimize differences between distributions. The FHS states that /usr/lib is for libraries for the binaries in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin while /usr/share is for architecture-independent shared data. Honestly, /usr/share seems the way to go.

> Some Perl dependencies are missing on Fedora : MP3::Tag, Net::FreeDB,
> Ogg::Vorbis::Header::PurePerl. They should be installable with cpan but I
> don't know how it can be integrated in the RPM package.

This, I can probably help with.

Thanks for the info on the FHS. The next version of GCstar will be compliant to avoid patches for packaging.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle.
Changing version to 39.

The "install" script now has a "--fhs" option to use the File Hierarchy Standard for GCstar. Patching is no longer necessary for that. I used "rpmlint" on https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar/-/blob/main/gcstar/packages/fedora/gcstar.spec and it produces only one warning.

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I was going to file a new bug when I found this prior issue for Gcstar. 
Hence just pasting herein info I had collected for that purpose. 

Request to fedora team to update gcstar source and build

A thankyou to gcstar open-source contributors/developers.
A thankyou to fedora team also.

Gcstar piqued my curiosity. 
Gcstar is a software for managing information on collections. 
I read that Gcstar can do qr-code lookups and also has an android port. 
It seems like Gcstar can also also function as a cross-platform home inventory system. That is for finding, locating, getting info on home items.

- https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/gcstar/gcstar/index.html
- https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1825
- https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar/
- https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar/-/releases 
- https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar/-/blob/main/gcstar/CHANGELOG?ref_type=heads 
- https://github.com/tothi/gcstar-win32 (old mirror of last version on gna)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20170516193556/http://gna.org/ 
- https://web.archive.org/web/20170224191345/http://gna.org/projects/gcstar/ 
- https://web.archive.org/web/20170203204250/http://download.gna.org/gcstar/ 
- https://gcstar.org/ (discontinued website with link to gitlab)

Herein, am just pointing out that gcstar source an rpm build needs to be updated 
fedora srpm presently at 1.7.1 this is from 20160308 
upstream last release was 1.8.0 20230423 
upstream last commit AoTW was on 20250520 .
upstream repo file "/gcstar/Changelog" indicates 1.8.1 is in development 

perhaps the reason why source updates are not happening is perhaps because
of change of repository from GNA-repo to gitlab 

Kerenoc, comment 7, above indicates that fhs compliant rpmspec file is ready
Has someone verified that and repackaged.

Thanks for trying to put GCstar back in the supported packages! I'm ready to change the upstream packaging descriptors if necessary.

GCstar is not ported to Android but there is an Android companion app GCstar Scan NG that can scan barcodes on items and send them to a GCstar application running on a computer.

So I tried to update the package this weekend and hit the following errors:

  - nothing provides perl(Gtk3::Dialog) needed by gcstar-1.8.0-1.fc42.noarch from @commandline
  - nothing provides perl(Gtk3::EventBox) needed by gcstar-1.8.0-1.fc42.noarch from @commandline
  - nothing provides perl(Gtk3::Frame) needed by gcstar-1.8.0-1.fc42.noarch from @commandline
  - nothing provides perl(Gtk3::Grid) needed by gcstar-1.8.0-1.fc42.noarch from @commandline
  - nothing provides perl(Gtk3::HBox) needed by gcstar-1.8.0-1.fc42.noarch from @commandline
  - nothing provides perl(Gtk3::MenuBar) needed by gcstar-1.8.0-1.fc42.noarch from @commandline
  - nothing provides perl(Gtk3::MessageDialog) needed by gcstar-1.8.0-1.fc42.noarch from @commandline
  - nothing provides perl(Gtk3::ScrolledWindow) needed by gcstar-1.8.0-1.fc42.noarch from @commandline
  - nothing provides perl(Gtk3::Toolbar) needed by gcstar-1.8.0-1.fc42.noarch from @commandline
  - nothing provides perl(Gtk3::TreeView) needed by gcstar-1.8.0-1.fc42.noarch from @commandline
  - nothing provides perl(Gtk3::VBox) needed by gcstar-1.8.0-1.fc42.noarch from @commandline
  - nothing provides perl(Gtk3::Window) needed by gcstar-1.8.0-1.fc42.noarch from @commandline

If someone can help me understand what package provides these, we could make some headway.

- just a user taking a guess
- Wouldn't "perl-Gtk3.noarch" be it. As from the errors it looks like it wants the basic gtk3 widgets. 
- `dnf list | grep -i perl | grep -i gtk | cut -d" " -f1` 
- However, fedora is making/has already made the transition to gtk4, but I do not see "perl-Gtk4.noarch" 
- so maybe gcstar should ensure it links to perl-gtk4 libs

This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.

(In reply to Emmanuel Seyman from comment #12)

> 
> If someone can help me understand what package provides these, we could make
> some headway.

A while back (on Fedora 39), I tried to list the necessary and optional dependencies for GCstar in https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar/-/blob/main/gcstar/packages/fedora/gcstar.spec

(In reply to Ganapathi Kamath from comment #13)
> - just a user taking a guess
> - Wouldn't "perl-Gtk3.noarch" be it. As from the errors it looks like it
> wants the basic gtk3 widgets. 
> - `dnf list | grep -i perl | grep -i gtk | cut -d" " -f1` 
> - However, fedora is making/has already made the transition to gtk4, but I
> do not see "perl-Gtk4.noarch" 
> - so maybe gcstar should ensure it links to perl-gtk4 libs

As far as I know, there is no Perl bindings for GTK4 and no one is working on it (see https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Perl/perl-gtk4). So the migration of GCstar to GTK4 would bee quite tedious (no Perl bindings, lots of changes in the widgets).

(In reply to Kerenoc from comment #15)
> 
> A while back (on Fedora 39), I tried to list the necessary and optional
> dependencies for GCstar in

We recommend tangerine to generate a dependency report:
https://metacpan.org/dist/Tangerine

> https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar/-/blob/main/gcstar/packages/fedora/gcstar.
> spec

Do you accept pull requests for changes on that file?

(In reply to Emmanuel Seyman from comment #17)
> (In reply to Kerenoc from comment #15)
> > 
> > A while back (on Fedora 39), I tried to list the necessary and optional
> > dependencies for GCstar in
> 
> We recommend tangerine to generate a dependency report:
> https://metacpan.org/dist/Tangerine
> 
> > https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar/-/blob/main/gcstar/packages/fedora/gcstar.
> > spec
> 
> Do you accept pull requests for changes on that file?

Yes of course!

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* I think gcstar is wholly missing in fedora-43
* Even though gcstar is built in koji as part of releng, 
  https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1825
  It is not there in the rpm repo
* The built binary has not made it to the rpm repo
* It was present in fedora 42
* repo comparison
  https://mirrors.maine.edu/Fedora/releases/42/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/g/
  https://mirrors.maine.edu/Fedora/releases/43/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/g/

(In reply to Ganapathi Kamath from comment #20)
>
> * I think gcstar is wholly missing in fedora-43

Indeed. I orphaned the package back in June and, 6 weeks later, it was retired from Fedora.

The good news is that someone can now submit a working version of the package for review. Once it is reviewed and added to Fedora, he will be able to maintain it.

I'm a bit lost here. As the upstream maintainer, what am I supposed to do?

What's really needed here is for a Fedora packager to resubmit the package, essentially starting from scratch.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Retirement_Process/#claiming

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