Bug#892001: ITP: dbus-broker -- Linux D-Bus Message Broker
On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 at 19:43, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 08 Jan 2021 at 16:30:08 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > Gentle ping reg.
> > https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/dbus/-/merge_requests/8 as
> > deadlines are fast approaching - dbus-broker has cleared NEW, so I'd
> > like to sort out the details regarding repository and team
> > maintainership and make it available in unstable/testing.
>
> Reviewing, testing and uploading that is on my list, but it isn't a
> short list and contains other things that are time-sensitive, so dbus
> has had to wait. I had hoped to have a dbus 1.14.x stable-branch by now,
> but at this point bullseye is going to be on 1.12.x.
No problem at all, thanks for your work on dbus!
> What deadlines did you have in mind? Are you intending to offer this as a
> "first-class citizen" option in bullseye? When dbus-broker has only been
> in the archive for two days, that doesn't seem like very much testing
> to have confidence that it will be suitable to provide important system
> services through the 3 year lifetime of bullseye.
I think it's fine as an optional package that users have to opt-in
for. Nothing depends on it, so it won't be installed by default
anywhere. Also there's no config to do to switch - install or
uninstall.
Also there's no difference to what Fedora shipped for a couple of
years now - we got no patches, special build flags or anything. So
it's good enough to be in bullseye in my view.
The only thing to sort out is maintainership - you mentioned you
wished to have it in the team, and I'm perfectly fine with it - if
that's still what you want to do, and you could please invite to the
Salsa section, I can do the rest.
Thanks!
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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