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Bug 1959750

Summary:	dpkg Requires po4a >= 0.59 on epel 8 but version available is po4a-0.52-4.el8
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Sergio Basto <sergio>
Component:	po4a	Assignee:	Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	8.5	CC:	bstinson, carl, jwboyer, qe-baseos-daemons, rjones, tzheng, virt-maint
Target Milestone:	beta	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Release:	---	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	po4a-0.63-1.el8	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2021-11-09 20:07:40 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Sergio Basto 2021-05-12 09:34:55 UTC

Hi,
Since this commit [1] I need po4a >= 0.59 to build dpkg , but [2], 
po4a is in powertools repo [3]  , can we do something to update it ?  

Thank you.


[1]
https://github.com/guillemj/dpkg/commit/a74a91310260efe55cc986506fe208ae2776a45a

[2]
https://git.centos.org/rpms/po4a/
import po4a-0.52-4.el8  CentOS Sources committed 2 years ago 

[3]
dnf repoquery po4a --qf "%{repoid} %{sourcerpm}" --quiet
powertools po4a-0.52-4.el8.src.rpm


Expected results:

Have an po4a package with less than 3 years old

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2021-05-12 09:59:25 UTC

I don't mind rebasing this.

Comment 4 Sergio Basto 2021-05-18 13:29:19 UTC

Thank you, let me know when I can check the progress , I also maintainer of po4a package in Fedora, If I can help in something let me know and don't forget po4a is a noarch package ;)

Comment 9 Richard W.M. Jones 2021-05-19 10:22:25 UTC

I did local builds of libguestfs and virt-v2v from the RHEL AV 8.5.0
branch with the new po4a package installed and it WFM.

Comment 11 tingting zheng 2021-05-20 08:36:01 UTC

Refer to comment 6, checked po4a version from brewweb, po4a-0.63-1.el8 has been built.

So the bug has been fixed, move the bug to VERIFIED.

Comment 12 Richard W.M. Jones 2021-06-03 11:36:59 UTC

(In reply to Sergio Basto from comment #4)
> Thank you, let me know when I can check the progress , I also maintainer of
> po4a package in Fedora, If I can help in something let me know and don't
> forget po4a is a noarch package ;)

The new po4a will be available in RHEL 8.5 and we don't announce
release dates in advance, but releases happen every 6 months and
RHEL 8.4 was released only a month ago (https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078).
That's enterprise software for ya ..

I've put the packages we're testing here:

http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/bz1959750-po4a-for-dpkg/

Comment 13 Josh Boyer 2021-06-03 11:45:05 UTC

(In reply to Richard W.M. Jones from comment #12)
> (In reply to Sergio Basto from comment #4)
> > Thank you, let me know when I can check the progress , I also maintainer of
> > po4a package in Fedora, If I can help in something let me know and don't
> > forget po4a is a noarch package ;)
> 
> The new po4a will be available in RHEL 8.5 and we don't announce
> release dates in advance, but releases happen every 6 months and
> RHEL 8.4 was released only a month ago
> (https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078).
> That's enterprise software for ya ..
> 
> I've put the packages we're testing here:
> 
> http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/bz1959750-po4a-for-dpkg/

This already present in CentOS Stream 8.

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8-stream/PowerTools/x86_64/os/Packages/po4a-0.63-1.el8.noarch.rpm

That's an upstream enterprise project for ya ..

Comment 14 Richard W.M. Jones 2021-06-03 12:37:49 UTC

Excellent!  I've deleted my copy - it's best to use the C8S packages
that Josh linked to (not least because they'll get updates if we
discover problems).

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 20:07:40 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (po4a bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2021:4520