Where would one request that a KDE project be published to a specific distribution's package repository?

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As an example, systemdgenie is currently solely available for Fedora in an unmaintained COPR repository, to my knowledge:

Consequently, is a user requesting that the development team make the package available on a distribution’s repository acceptable? If so, how should it be conducted? Invent, Phabricator, or Bugzilla?

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That is a job of the distro. In that case, you can kindly ask the KDE SIG people.

Normally you would take the spec, update it to the latest version of the software and try to use it locally to build something. Then if it works, put it on COPR, if it builds there, add the “fedora review” tag to it and ask someone in the SIG to help you check it. Then it could be included in Fedora, if there is a maintainer.

But this is really a discussion.fedoraproject.org thread

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So, @kenning, say that I wanted this added to both openSUSE Tumbleweed and Fedora. I’d go to their packaging teams, because upstream doesn’t organise any of this?

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Yes. You can request that in their Bugzilla instances.

What happens is that once KDE releases some software and a tarball with that release’s source code is provided, it’s out of KDE’s hands and it’s distribution packagers that can then grab the tarball from KDE, build the software against their distro libraries, and package it.

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