Hey,
seeing that there is no response so far I'll just give my few cents here as a co-maintainer.

I really do understand your request, however I'm not sure we can fulfill it: In my understanding of the epel updating guidelines, major updates are to be avoided in stable epel branches unless there is an important need (like security issues which can't be patched). Unfortunately this upstream project does not use semantic versioning nor does it provide release notes, which makes it quite difficult to decide whether or not this is a major updated. Given the time and the amount of commits between those versions I think we need to assume it is major and can therefore not be updated in epel8. (I'm not really experienced with epel, so if you are aware of alternative interpretations or best practices let me know.)

Would it help you if there was a copr build with the latest version for epel8? I'd be happy to look into that as an alternative if it is viable for you.

Cheers,
David

Yes, that would definitely help! Thx for the offer!

I gave it a few tries but it's harder than I thought unfortunately. The modern rpm macros add some difficulties and even bevore that there are new setuptools features used in the recent trash-cli version which the old epel 8 setuptools doesn't understand. (At least that is what I interpreted from the build logs.)

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dreua/trash-cli/builds/

I might take another stab at it if I feel like it but no promises at that point, sorry.

I don't feel like spending any more time on that, sorry. Epel 8 ist just quite old in terms of Python development. Copr builds for Epel 9 or later should not be a problem, so upgrading on your side could be part of the solution ;)

Sad to hear that. But I can understand it. Unfortunately upgrading to RHEL9 is not possible at the moment - for various reasons.

Thank you anyway!