On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 04:33:28PM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 3:35 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 11:56:17AM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just noticed that the packages for the sevctl utility were orphaned.
> > > Its addition to Fedora was widely publicized at the time, because we
> > > were the first (?) distribution to include tools for working with AMD
> > > SEV. It looks like ckuehl left Red Hat (?), and their packages were
> > > orphaned as a result of that? It's hard for an "outsider" to know or
> > > check what's going on inside Red Hat.
> >
> > Yes, unfortunately Red Hat employee changes aren't easily visible
> > to those outside Red Hat, except through inference such as the
> > orphaning you saw.
> >
> > > If those tools are still deemed useful (at least the upstream enarx
> > > project on GitHub seems to still be active), I'll pick up rust-sevctl
> > > and its dependencies for the Rust SIG.
> >
> > I'm likely to end up on the hook for sevctl in RHEL / CentOS stream
> > as part of our virtualization stack, so makes sense for me to be a
> > maintainer in Fedora too. I'm always happy if packages have more than
> > one maintainer though to remove single points of failure.
> 
> Good to know. If you end up picking up those packages, feel free to
> add the Rust packages to the @rust-sig group.

Was there more than just the rust-sevctl package that is relevant
here ?  (I've not thought about any build deps-chain yet)

Regards,
Daniel
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