I apologize for leading this thread off-topic. I suggest the discussion on creating a repository for BibleTime to continue under the respective GitHub issue: https://github.com/bibletime/bibletime/issues/258

On 06.10.23 19:27, Fr Cyrille wrote:
For Ubuntu, there's already a ppa for Crosswire. It would be coherent for us to put everything together on this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~pkgcrosswire/+archive/ubuntu/ppa. You'd need to have full access rights, which I do, but I can't do it for you - you'd have to ask DImitri: https://launchpad.net/~xnox

Le 06/10/2023 à 10:12, Jaak Ristioja a écrit :
Please understand, that we might nevertheless decide to host our own Fedora repository for BibleTime as well.

BibleTime developers are not responsible for packages we did not create ourselves, but when issues with these packages arise many users still complain directly to us. Oftentimes they just ask for some newer version of BibleTime to be packaged for their platform. Many distributions also have restrictive packaging policies which prevent introducing new (major) versions of packages to stable distribution versions. Hosting our own repositories might help in that regard and we would also not be tied to having to support older versions of BibleTime we no longer can or wish to support. We have very limited resources and can't afford to manage BibleTime within distribution repositories.

On 06.10.23 09:58, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
No worries there, I would be doing all the work of managing BibleTime
within the Fedora repositories, the devs wouldn't have to do extra
work for that to happen.

If the BibleTime developers are interested in hosting their own repos
for other distros, that's certainly their option (and a good idea in
my opinion), however having BibleTime directly in distribution repos
will obviously make it easier for end-users to install and use it, so
I'd like to make that happen by maintaining the package in Fedora. (I
also have experience with Debian packaging so if the current Debian
maintainer gives up on it, I might be able to help there too.)

On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 1:42 AM Jaak Ristioja <j...@ristioja.ee> wrote:

Hi,

On 05.10.23 20:59, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
Thanks! If all of the comaintainers for Xiphos and BibleTime are also no longer available or interested, I think it would be helpful if you could
go into https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xiphos and
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/bibletime and click the "Orphan"
button on those. I'll take them once that's done and should be able to
help keep them maintained.

BibleTime would be interested in hosting their own package repositories
for different distributions and their versions, which would be updated
by the CI (see [1]) and perhaps be of low maintenance burden. We don't
have the resources to commit to managing BibleTime packages under the
umbrella of different distros.

Best regards,
J


[1]: https://github.com/bibletime/bibletime/issues/258
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