Re: Orphaning Sawfish on Fedora

Trevor Cordes wrote:
> On 2025-12-27 Kim B. Heino wrote:
> > Hi all Fedora users,
> > 
> > I'm therefore orphaning Sawfish packages (sawfish, sawfish-pager,
> > librep, rep-gtk) on Fedora. I can help if somebody else wants to adopt
> > them. If not, Sawfish will be eventually removed from Fedora.
> 
> I'll do it if no one else can.  I am very experienced with rpm /
> rpmbuild, and programming in general, but have never maintained an rpm
> officially.  Maybe someone else could do it better.
> 
> However, I cannot live without it on Fedora, so I'll gladly do it if
> that's what is required.

I can probably offer some help. I have been using Sawfish for a while, when
it was still called Sawmill. I have many years of experience with RPM
packaging: in fact, in the old times of Red Hat Linux (not the Enterprise
Linux, it was the thing which would have later morph into present-time Fedora)
I maintained unofficial RPM packages for that weird new rlogin-alike called
ssh-1.2 :-). That said, being mainly a Perl/C programmer, Lisp/Guile is not my
cup of $favourite_beverage.  So I can help with packaging, but not with
Sawfish internals.

Is there still anybody here who is able to understand the inner workings
of librep/sawfish?

FWIW, I am not another instance of Jia Tan of the xz supply chain attack,
my history on this list and elsewhere in the Internet is quite well documented
(look up Yenya on github, cpan, and mailing list archives).

Maybe we can co-maintain the sawfish packages?

-Yenya

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