Just comment that I maintain xscreensaver on Fedora side, but I am not going to maintain any packages on EPEL side.
I leave this ticket to how EPEL side maintainer thinks.

(In reply to Mamoru TASAKA from comment #1)
> Just comment that I maintain xscreensaver on Fedora side, but I am not going
> to maintain any packages on EPEL side.
> I leave this ticket to how EPEL side maintainer thinks.

I can certainly appreciate that you would not want to maintain the EPEL package.

Will anyone on the EPEL team be able to branch and build xscreensaver in epel9?

Will anyone on the EPEL team be able to branch and build xscreensaver in epel9?

I don't know EPEL team (and don't know if such team exists, either). Anyway I don't think such members are
watching this bugzilla ticket. Please contact them (if exists) by yourself, thank you.

(In reply to Mamoru TASAKA from comment #4)
> I don't know EPEL team (and don't know if such team exists, either). Anyway
> I don't think such members are
> watching this bugzilla ticket. Please contact them (if exists) by yourself,
> thank you.

Thanks. I just sent an email to the epel-devel list to see if there is an interested packager.

I'm happy to maintain xscreensaver on EPEL.  Please add my FAS and the EPEL packagers sig.

FAS: jonathanspw
EPEL group: epel-packagers-sig

Done.

FEDORA-EPEL-2022-2be925d1b2 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 9. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-2be925d1b2

FEDORA-EPEL-2022-2be925d1b2 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2022-2be925d1b2

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

FEDORA-EPEL-2022-2be925d1b2 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Thanks so much for packaging this! But I think there may still be an issue...

When I try to install the package, I get the error noted below:

Error: 
 Problem: package xscreensaver-1:6.05-3.el9.x86_64 requires xscreensaver-base = 1:6.05-3.el9, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - nothing provides appres needed by xscreensaver-base-1:6.05-3.el9.x86_64

It appears that the x-screensaver-base package requires a package called "appres" which is not currently available in EPEL 9. I also happened to note the following in the changelog for the versions of xscreensaver-base that are available in EPEL 7 and EPEL 8 (see https://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/epel/8/x86_64/Packages/x/xscreensaver-base-5.45-5.el8.x86_64.html for reference):

* Tue Mar 02 2021 Ding-Yi Chen <dchen> - 1:5.45-5
  - Fix EPEL 8 & EPEL 7 build
  - Remove appres from EL8 and EL7, because they don't have it.

So perhaps this dependency simply needs to be removed from the EPEL 8 build as well?

I am not the maintainer for EPEL side, however:

* Does /usr/bin/appres exist? If so what "$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/appres" returns?
* Does xorg-x11-resutils rpm available?

Thanks for the response! To answer your questions:

* /usr/bin/appres does not exist on my system.
* Doing "$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/appres" returns "error: file /usr/bin/appres: No such file or directory"
* The xorg-x11-resutils package does not appear to be available. It looks like it is available in EPEL 7, but it is not currently listed in EPEL 8 or EPEL 9.

Is it appropriate to work on this issue using this ticket -- even though it's closed -- or would it be better to open a new ticket?

I created a new bug report for the dependency problem noted here at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2149465.