Maintaining various packages for various distributions would be a large and time consuming undertaking. Especially for a small team that needs to fill many roles. But perhaps in the future!

However; Fedora users wanting to build v1.8 now will find this useful: https://github.com/CryptoCanary/EverGreenCoin-boost-1.66

It did work for matteo96, but please remember to install all dependencies first.