Please branch and build sip6 in epel 8 and 9. If you do not wish to maintain sip6 in epel, or do not think you will be able to do this in a timely manner, the EPEL Packagers SIG would be happy to be a co-maintainer of the package; please add the epel-packagers-sig group through https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/sip6>/addgroup and grant it commit access, or collaborator access on epel* branches. I would also be happy to be a co-maintainer (FAS: orion).
There are a couple of problems here: 1) On EL8, sip6 6.6.2 doesn't work with Python 3.6: + /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sipbuild, sipbuild.distinfo, sipbuild.module, sipbuild.tools' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/sip6-6.6.2-2.el8.x86_64/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/sipbuild/__init__.py", line 27, in <module> from .bindings import Bindings File "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/sip6-6.6.2-2.el8.x86_64/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/sipbuild/bindings.py", line 32, in <module> from .generator import parse File "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/sip6-6.6.2-2.el8.x86_64/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/sipbuild/generator/__init__.py", line 25, in <module> from .parser import parse File "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/sip6-6.6.2-2.el8.x86_64/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/sipbuild/generator/parser/__init__.py", line 25, in <module> from .parser import parse File "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/sip6-6.6.2-2.el8.x86_64/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/sipbuild/generator/parser/parser.py", line 24, in <module> from .parser_manager import ParserManager File "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/sip6-6.6.2-2.el8.x86_64/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/sipbuild/generator/parser/parser_manager.py", line 32, in <module> from ..python_slots import invalid_global_slot, slot_name_detail_map File "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/sip6-6.6.2-2.el8.x86_64/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/sipbuild/generator/python_slots.py", line 24, in <module> from .specification import PySlot File "/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/sip6-6.6.2-2.el8.x86_64/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/sipbuild/generator/specification.py", line 24, in <module> from dataclasses import dataclass, field ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dataclasses' (dataclasses is new in Python 3.7) 2) On EL9, sip6 is already part of EL9 (or at least CentOS stream and might not have made it into RHEL yet).
Version 6.5 will build properly on EL8. The only thing I had to do from commit 7c8cb812596ac2af1afdabbc72b4127e8878569a was add the "packaging" module to BRs. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=95790684 Can you please build this for EPEL8 or add myself (jonathanspw) and/or "orion" and we can tackle it.
FEDORA-EPEL-2023-5952af2af7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 8. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2023-5952af2af7
FEDORA-EPEL-2023-5952af2af7 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-2023-5952af2af7 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-EPEL-2023-5952af2af7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.