Hi Nathan,

Is this something you would be willing to push forward (most likely requesting the branch and porting/building it over there)?

For our own internal use, I rebuilt rubygem-xml-simple-1.1.2-6 srpm (I believe I just reused Fedora's SRPM file).  So far working for us.

At this time, I would not be able to maintain this for EPEL8 myself, but I attached the spec file we used.

==begin
# Generated from xml-simple-1.0.12.gem by gem2rpm -*- rpm-spec -*-
%global gem_name xml-simple

Summary: A simple API for XML processing
Name: rubygem-%{gem_name}
Version: 1.1.2
Release: 6%{?dist}
Group: Development/Languages
License: BSD or Ruby
URL: http://xml-simple.rubyforge.org
Source0: http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/%{gem_name}-%{version}.gem
Requires: ruby(rubygems)
Requires: ruby(release)
BuildRequires: rubygems-devel
BuildArch: noarch
Provides: rubygem(%{gem_name}) = %{version}

%description
A simple API for XML processing.

%prep
%setup -q -c -T
%gem_install -n %{SOURCE0}

%build

%install
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{gem_dir}
cp -a .%{gem_dir}/* \
        %{buildroot}%{gem_dir}/

chmod -x %{buildroot}/%{gem_libdir}/xmlsimple.rb

%files
%{gem_instdir}
%doc %{gem_docdir}
%{gem_cache}
%{gem_spec}
==end

Thanks Nathan,

I requested EPEL8 branches at

https://pagure.io/releng/fedora-scm-requests/issue/26547
https://pagure.io/releng/fedora-scm-requests/issue/26548

FEDORA-EPEL-2020-7e02a0a184 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 8. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-7e02a0a184

FEDORA-EPEL-2020-7e02a0a184 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-2020-7e02a0a184

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

FEDORA-EPEL-2020-7e02a0a184 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.