There is a list for the electronics lab, but it looks like it is inactive currently: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/electronic-...@lists.fedoraproject.org/. Perhaps we could revive it for coordinating this and other packages that are electronics related.
-Ian On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 7:06 PM Alain Vigne <alain.vigne...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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