[postgis-devel] PostGIS dependency CharLS was retired in EPEL

[Devrim Gündüz]

Hi John,

Thank you for the heads up. I am in touch with tibbs on #epel. I am a
provenpackager on Fedora, so I should be able to take over the package quickly.

I'll keep you updated.

Regards, Devrim

On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 16:35 -0400, John Harvey wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I was building postgis 2.2.3 today, when things broke strangely during
> dependency processing:  "No package CharLS available".
> 
> I did some research, and apparently this dependent library was orphaned
> today, with this message:
> 2016-10-19: Retired orphaned package, because it was orphaned for
> more than six weeks.
> 
> You can see that info here as well:
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/CharLS.git/
> 
> So, one of postgis's dependencies is no longer in EPEL.
> I checked on the #epel channel in Freenode, and they had this to say:
> "If you're a Fedora packager, you can request that you become the
> maintainer of that package and that it be un-retired.  It was just retired
> today so that can be undone easily.  But of course it can only be undone if
> someone actually wants to maintain it."
> 
> So... I'm not really sure what to do here.  I can build CharLS myself, but
> that sounds like a big ask for anyone using PostGIS on EL6.  It's probably
> worth asking if anyone wants to stand up and maintain the CharLS package on
> EL6?  Or, could the CharLS dependency be removed?
> 
> Thanks!
>   -John
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