Hi, I am Alain, co-maintainer of Qucs, because I proposed to help Geoffrey with Fedora Electonic Lab related software. I saw Qucs was FTBFS, and planed to update to "latest" 0.0.19, or 0.0.20-rc2 ? But I did not dedicate enough time. Sigh. I am not an experienced packager, nor developer. Just an Electrical Engineer...
I am not sure a revival of freehdl is a good idea, as the project seems dead upstream. How familiar with those software are you ? Did you subscribe to the Qucs dev list ? Did you contact upstream already ? I wonder if an "Electronic Lab" mailing list exists ? and if such discussions could better happen there, and not disturbing all Fedora devs... Else, I propose to start a private thread of some sort. Kind regards Alain On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 5:55 PM <goncalo_pere...@outlook.pt> wrote: > Thank you for the update on the status of the qucs package. > I will try to create a package and if that goes well I will get back to > you. > Best Regards, > Gonçalo Pereira > > On 8 Mar 2020 16:42, Ian McInerney <ian.s.mciner...@ieee.org> wrote: > > Unfortunately, Qucs appears to be in a problematic state right now. There > are two main issues with it: > > 1) It has a requires on freehdl, but freehdl was orphaned a year ago so it > is not in F30/31/32. > 2) It fails to build in F32, the Bugzilla entry seems to suggest that this > is fixed if Qucs gets upgraded to its most recent version ( > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1799962) though, since it was > fallout from the GCC 10 upgrade. > > The issue with freehdl is that it needs to go through a new review to get > re-added to the repository (since it has been over a year since it was > orphaned). > > The primary Qucs maintainer is Geoffrey Marr (I have CC'd him in on this), > so hopefully he can respond and say if he has time to keep working on Qucs. > > Probably the best place to start would be to revive the freehdl package > (so you will need to rewrite the spec file and get it reviewed). If you > want a co-maintaner, I can help out since I have used Qucs for a while (but > haven't had to recently, so I didn't notice the breakage) - but I can't > sponsor into the packager group, so you would need to find someone willing > to sponsor you. > > -Ian > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 4:09 PM Gonçalo Camelo Neves Pereira < > goncalo_pere...@outlook.pt> wrote: > > Hello! > > I am Gonçalo (gpereira). I am an electrical engineer so you can expect > my contributions to be around those kinds of packages. My motivation to > join was seeing the qucs package broken. I would like to dedicate some > time to understand the spec file in order to maintain it. I believe this > will be a good starting point to learn more about the fedora package > system. > > By the way, is there anyone that tried this already? > > Best Regards, > Gonçalo Pereira > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Alain V.
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