It makes sense to hand it over to you. I am OK with it. Does anybody have a guide on how to do so?
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 10:18 AM Michal Schorm <msch...@redhat.com> wrote: > Sorry for the delay. > I checked with MariaDB upstream. > > https://mariadb.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/118759-general/topic/Sphinx.20SE > > The upstream last updated the version they are using ~7 years ago to > version 2.2.6 and since it isn't a very important storage engine, it > might be best to deprecate and remove it in the future. > > I offer to take over the package myself, and put the best effort I'll > find to keep it alive and orphan it once MariaDB stops using it or it > just won't build anymore. > > Michal > > -- > > Michal Schorm > Software Engineer > Core Services - Databases Team > Red Hat > > -- > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 2:17 PM Michal Schorm <msch...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > MariaDB provides a Sphinx storage engine [1] which build is enabled in > Fedora. > > The 'mariadb' SPECfile mentions following requirements: > > > > BuildRequires: sphinx libsphinxclient libsphinxclient-devel > > Requires: sphinx libsphinxclient > > > > I guess that orphaning all (C or Python) versions of Sphinx in Fedora > > will make me unable to keep building this SE. (The fact that it is > > available via Pip doesn't help me during a package build) > > > > I haven't looked at this piece of MariaDB in years, I have to check > > both myself and with the MariaDB upstream - whether they are aware of > > this situation or if they already have a plan. > > > > [1] http://mariadb.com/kb/en/about-sphinxse/ > > > > -- > > > > Michal Schorm > > Software Engineer > > Core Services - Databases Team > > Red Hat > > > > -- > > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 1:48 PM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel > > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > > > On 13/01/2022 13:33, Sergio Arroutbi wrote: > > > > Latest binary versions from previous link (for example, v3.4.1) link > to > > > > python base source code. > > > > > > Also they decided co close sources last year: > > > > > > > 3.0 and up sources are currently only available under a delayed FOSS > or commercial licenses for several reasons; going back to regular plain old > GPL is planned but timing is moot; so email us if you require the sources > immediately. > > > > > > > > Sources for previous 2.x versions can be found either in the Archive > below or on GitHub, github.com/sphinxsearch/sphinx > > > > > > -- > > > Sincerely, > > > Vitaly Zaitsev (vit...@easycoding.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 > > > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > -- Sergio Arroutbi Braojos Software Engineer at Red Hat - Special Projects (SECENGSP) Red Hat <http://redhat.com>
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