Please, branch and build package “sphinx” for EPEL9
Any progress on this issue?
Hello Panos, The current goal of the Fedora maintainer (me) is to orphan the package as soon as all packages that depend on 'sphinx' drops the dependency. At this moment, the only such package should be 'mariadb', more precisely a single storage engine. The 'sphinx' package upstream released two newer major versions and closed the source. I asked the MariaDB upstream about the vision and the deprecation the above mentioned storage engine is on the table. I took over the package when the previous maintainer announced intention to orphan the package; and I announced that I will only do the best effort to keep it building; until I will orphan it. Introducing the package into EPEL 9 does not sound like a wise intention; unless you want to maintain it in EPEL 9 for the whole RHEL 9 support period (~10 years). I strongly recommend to find any other way around your request, given the package state in both upstream and downstream.