Description of problem: xapian-core is planned to be added to RHEL 8.5 [0]. It is already available CentOS Stream 8. Per policy [1] it must be retired from epel8 once RHEL 8.5 GA is released. The planned RHEL package version provides a correct upgrade path. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xapian-core-1.4.14-1.el8 (epel8) xapian-core-1.4.18-3.el8 (cs8, planned for rhel8.5) Additional info: Unfortunately at the moment the plan is to only ship xapian-core and xapian-core-libs, not xapian-core-devel. This will be a problem for several EPEL package build requirements. - kf5-akonadi-search - kf5-libkdepim - kf5-libksieve - kf5-mailimporter - kf5-pimcommon - kf5-libgravatar - kf5-libksieve - khelpcenter - opentrep - xapian-bindings I highly encourage you to file an RHEL 8 bug requesting the maintainer ship xapian-core-devel in CRB, per the EPEL [2] and CentOS [3] FAQs. [0] bug 1918908 [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/GuidelinesAndPolicies#Policy [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#RHEL_8_has_binaries_in_the_release.2C_but_is_missing_some_corresponding_-devel_package._How_do_I_build_a_package_that_needs_that_missing_-devel_package.3F [3] https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS8/UnshippedPackages
Adding Pavel Zhukov the RHEL maintainer for xapian-core, could you co-maintain the xapian-bindings in EPEL?
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #1) > Adding Pavel Zhukov the RHEL maintainer for xapian-core, could you > co-maintain the xapian-bindings in EPEL? Thanks for heads up notice! I am not sure of what I need to do. But, yes, we definitely need xapian-core-devel and xapian-bindings in EPEL (or RHEL).
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #1) > Adding Pavel Zhukov the RHEL maintainer for xapian-core, could you > co-maintain the xapian-bindings in EPEL? I'll open a ticket to ship -devel in CRB. What's the point in becoming co-maintainer of xapian-bindings?
> I'll open a ticket to ship -devel in CRB. What's the point in becoming > co-maintainer of xapian-bindings? To assist, you're more aware of what's happening to the package in RHEL and can assist in keeping the two aligned.
*** Bug 1982799 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I have a CS8 system with xapian-core-devel that now fails to update due to this change. I sure hope the -devel package comes back soon....thanks.
*** Bug 1982824 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Jonathan, this bug is specific to the retirement of xapian-core (and its subpackages) from EPEL8. It sounds like you're looking for bug 1982823, which is the request to add xapian-core-devel subpackage to CS8/RHEL8.
So xapian-core needs to go from EPEL because RHEL wants it, but not -devel. I can understand somewhat if people hesitate to take up -devel if they've maintained libs only so far. But ripping apart the EPEL 8 packaging just so that RHEL can take the lib they want is really a whole new level. This also keeps the package from getting into EPEL 9 altogether as it stands.
xapian-core-devel is in RHEL 8.5 in the codeready-builder repoisitory, or the CentOS Linux 8 powertools repository. * RHEL 8.5 or later $ dnf --enablerepo=codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms list xapian\* xapian-bindings.x86_64 1.4.14-1.el8 epel xapian-bindings-ruby.x86_64 1.4.14-1.el8 epel xapian-core.i686 1.4.18-3.el8 codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms xapian-core.x86_64 1.4.18-3.el8 rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms xapian-core-devel.i686 1.4.18-3.el8 codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms xapian-core-devel.x86_64 1.4.18-3.el8 codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms xapian-core-libs.x86_64 1.4.18-3.el8 rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms xapian-core-libs.i686 1.4.18-3.el8 rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms * CentOS Linux 8 $ dnf --enablerepo=powertools list xapian\* xapian-bindings.x86_64 1.4.14-1.el8 epel xapian-bindings-ruby.x86_64 1.4.14-1.el8 epel xapian-core.i686 1.4.18-3.el8 powertools xapian-core.x86_64 1.4.18-3.el8 appstream xapian-core-devel.i686 1.4.18-3.el8 powertools xapian-core-devel.x86_64 1.4.18-3.el8 powertools xapian-core-libs.i686 1.4.18-3.el8 appstream xapian-core-libs.x86_64 1.4.18-3.el8 appstream It is safe to remove xapian-core from epel8 at this time.
Retired. https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xapian-core/c/b4344b652f9c419822a82a0f5661daa84f9768f2?branch=epel8