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The story
Someone in the COSSIG said Slackware is good, so I took a look.
I noticed in the book that the vi(1) in Slackware is elvis, it is amazing.
Then this monthly holiday, I installed a Slackware VM. In the installation process,
I found that the nvi in Slackware supports UTF-8! WTF!
The nvi in OpenBSD and NixOS don't support UTF-8, why the Slack build have?
So I looked at the source, it have 30 patches applied on nvi-1.81.6 it is configured with --enable-widechar
So I wanted to add a UTF-8 nvi in my nur, so I copied the NixOS build script,
and found it has patches from a fedora repo!
Then I checked that repo, it have the exact same patch series as Slackware,
BUTT orphaned since f33…
Why retired, nvi is a good software, isn't it?
The reason why it is orphaned and retired is "Failed to build from source". Actually it is because unable to fetch source from http://www.kotnet.org/~skimo/nvi since kotnet.org is a student orgnization and seems disappeared in 2014. But we can get alternative source from git or Debian(NixOS gets it from there) or Slackware(mentioned above) etc.
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So I want to help. If I can make this package available, thousands of user will benifit from this. I love this distro. I created BugZilla and Fedora account, the fedora account is useable in nearly all fedora services, great! 这里面水很深 Fedora Infrastructure Map
Fixing the code is easy, but following the polices and communicating with people is the hard part I guess.
After reading The Cathedral and the Bazaar, I think Fedora is Cathedral, and NixOS's noisy github issue is Bazar.
To start, I need to follow the guides:
- https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Joining_the_Package_Maintainers
- https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Policy_for_orphan_and_retired_packages/#unorphaning_and_unretiring_packages
- https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Packaging_Tutorial_GNU_Hello
I submitted review request to BZ1: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2183721 And fill in the releng issue with BZ url: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/11370 And send an email to devel: Unretire nvi (make Berkeley vi great again)
btw you can check repo through api using curl (learned in mailing list)
curl https://src.fedoraproject.org/api/0/rpms/nviMailing list
some interesting thread in the list
Anyone interested in packaging nim-lang?
first, I'm also interested in Nim and found it not available second, it is also orphaned and then retired
%patchN deprecated?
yes, deprecated, so I need to change it in my packages