On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 12:17:00 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> recordmydesktop was retired in F27:
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/4RCB6MBC4JVGG4SYLIKUDOOT2REGA6N4/
>
> It's claimed that it doesn't work and is full of crash bugs, but I was
> able to compile it on F29 and it works fine for me, and it's a very
> useful little tool.

Quoting https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1538352#c1

| Yes, recordmydesktop was intentionally retired due to the project being
| abandoned (no new release in 10 years), it contained many crash bugs,
| and was not at all working on Wayland.

There are various WONTFIX and EOL issues tracked in bugzilla. Bringing
back the package without going through those tickets first doesn't sound
like a good idea.