Sorry for the delay.
I checked with MariaDB upstream.
    https://mariadb.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/118759-general/topic/Sphinx.20SE

The upstream last updated the version they are using ~7 years ago to
version 2.2.6 and since it isn't a very important storage engine, it
might be best to deprecate and remove it in the future.

I offer to take over the package myself, and put the best effort I'll
find to keep it alive and orphan it once MariaDB stops using it or it
just won't build anymore.

Michal

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Michal Schorm
Software Engineer
Core Services - Databases Team
Red Hat

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On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 2:17 PM Michal Schorm <mschorm@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> MariaDB provides a Sphinx storage engine [1] which build is enabled in Fedora.
> The 'mariadb' SPECfile mentions following requirements:
>
> BuildRequires:    sphinx libsphinxclient libsphinxclient-devel
> Requires:         sphinx libsphinxclient
>
> I guess that orphaning all (C or Python) versions of Sphinx in Fedora
> will make me unable to keep building this SE. (The fact that it is
> available via Pip doesn't help me during a package build)
>
> I haven't looked at this piece of MariaDB in years, I have to check
> both myself and with the MariaDB upstream - whether they are aware of
> this situation or if they already have a plan.
>
> [1] http://mariadb.com/kb/en/about-sphinxse/
>
> --
>
> Michal Schorm
> Software Engineer
> Core Services - Databases Team
> Red Hat
>
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>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 1:48 PM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
> <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 13/01/2022 13:33, Sergio Arroutbi wrote:
> > > Latest binary versions from previous link (for example, v3.4.1) link to
> > > python base source code.
> >
> > Also they decided co close sources last year:
> >
> > > 3.0 and up sources are currently only available under a delayed FOSS or commercial licenses for several reasons; going back to regular plain old GPL is planned but timing is moot; so email us if you require the sources immediately.
> > >
> > > Sources for previous 2.x versions can be found either in the Archive below or on GitHub, github.com/sphinxsearch/sphinx
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely,
> >    Vitaly Zaitsev (vitaly@easycoding.org)
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