Bug 2211575

Summary:	devilspie2 missing from FC38 repos
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	John Dodson <jwadodson>
Component:	devilspie2	Assignee:	Orphan Owner <extras-orphan>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	39	CC:	decathorpe, extras-orphan, merritt.kr, miminar
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Description John Dodson 2023-06-01 05:58:53 UTC

devilspie2 missing from FC30 repos

dnf list devilspie*

lists only the FC37 installed package.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf list devilspie*
2.
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Actual Results:  
lists only the FC37 installed package.

No upgrade/FC38 version available

Expected Results:  
An upgrade version available.

Comment 1 John Dodson 2023-06-01 06:17:00 UTC

I mean FC38 repos

Comment 2 John Dodson 2023-07-05 15:20:31 UTC

Here's an unofficial repo...


[copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:psi-jack:devilspie]
name=Copr repo for devilspie owned by psi-jack
baseurl=https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/psi-jack/devilspie/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/
type=rpm-md
skip_if_unavailable=True
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/psi-jack/devilspie/pubkey.gpg
repo_gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
enabled_metadata=1

Comment 3 John Dodson 2023-07-14 02:28:18 UTC

Is it likely that devilspie will get back in the fedora repo?

Comment 4 John Dodson 2023-08-07 01:34:48 UTC

Any action on this?

Comment 5 John Dodson 2023-08-15 14:40:45 UTC

Any news?

Comment 6 John Dodson 2023-12-06 11:04:24 UTC

What does "orphan owner" mean?

Comment 7 Fabio Valentini 2023-12-08 17:32:48 UTC

Usually the older bug is kept and newer ones are kept as duplicates.
My old bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2132094) is now closed anyway, so that is moot.

> What does "orphan owner" mean?

This means that the package has no maintainer, and that it will be removed from Fedora.

In fact, this has already happened a while ago:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/devilspie2/c/a77dcc501ca71ded5f9dd4cef1dde8e332d4cc7f?branch=rawhide

Unless somebody wants to step up and add the package back to Fedora, it will not be available in current and future versions of Fedora.

Comment 8 John Dodson 2023-12-09 11:06:54 UTC

Who was the last maintainer?

Why did they give it up? it appears that happened almost a year ago?

Are there any statistics on how many people are loading it from repos?

Comment 9 John Dodson 2023-12-09 11:58:56 UTC

or attempting to load it from repos?

Comment 10 Fabio Valentini 2023-12-13 14:51:31 UTC

(In reply to John Dodson from comment #8)
> Who was the last maintainer?

The old maintainer appears to be miminar, who was decided to be "non-responsive" a while ago:
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2891

> Why did they give it up? it appears that happened almost a year ago?

I don't know what happened or why.

> Are there any statistics on how many people are loading it from repos?

No, we don't have any statistics / telemetry like that.