@dherrera just for your awareness, though not sure if this falls under your responsibility. If I missed something in this PR that would've fixed the CI build happy to update it or provide any other help!

Howdy @seaninspace, I'm not the maintainer of this package but I can help you out here. The CI build failed because the upstream tarball was missing from the lookaside cache. This is a separate area that allows us to store tarballs outside of git. It's what the sources file references so the build system can download a verified tarball. This git forge together with the lookaside cache make up what we call dist-git.

I couldn't merge this PR directly because there was a rebuild commit on the rawhide branch after you opened it. I cherry-picked your commit to the rawhide branch, fixed the merge conflict in the changelog, and uploaded the upstream tarball to the lookaside cache. I also had to make a slight tweak to not include the TODO file, which was part of the 1.7 series but not the 1.8 series. Consider this merged (even though the UI here in the PR will show it as closed). Thanks for the contribution!

Hey @carlwgeorge! ah ha, I figured the placement of the tarballs mattered but wasn't sure where to go. I imagine the lookaside cache is only accessible to those in the packager group?

Thank you for all that information and help! It's very useful to see the whole process, and I'll read up more on the packaging/licensing guidelines.

As for future updates I'm more than happy to help co-maintain, I've reached out to @piotrp separately and I'll wait for his response.