On 2020-05-29 12:43, Holger Levsen wrote: > hi Mihai, > > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 12:17:13PM +0200, Mihai Moldovan wrote: >> Sorry for the late response. I've been busy, and, honestly, also always forgot >> to actually answer. > > thanks for your reply & don't worry, this happens often & to many people, me > included. > >> unman seems to be interested, if that's good enough, so there's that. > > that is good enough if not much better than that. > >>> all very very nice! It would be a pity to have this rot, but then, without >>> maintenance it will anyway eventually... >> >> Personally, I will have to "maintain" the package sets anyway, because I'm >> building a lot of Fedora/CentOS packages in an automatic fashion on Debian. >> >> This "maintenance" just means that I'll probably update stuff every half a year >> or year, though, essentially "whenever it breaks" (which does tend to happen). > [...] >> As given in the initial description, I've published source and binary packages >> for Debian Unstable/Sid at https://packages.x2go.org/debian-test/pool/main/ >> >> Note that the binaries are a bit old by now and would probably like a rebuild, >> but the source is still the one I'm also using on my package builder. >> >> Also, the packages became a bit stale version wise (after all, they are 9 month >> old by now) and some included patches have already been applied upstream. I >> haven't tried updating (and testing any updates) yet, though, and probably won't >> come to that shortly either. > > the important part is whether we'll get these packages ready and up to date > until end of 2020 *and* whether we can commit to maintain important fixes after that. > > end of 2020 because of "key release dates" on https://release.debian.org/ > > it's ok(ish) if the stuff is outdated today, but in 6 month it really should be current. > (and then after the release we can slack a bit again, though usually it's > less effort to always package and upload the latest version.) > > Hi everyone, I've packaged for Qubes all the work (not the dnf plugins as we don't need it currently) of Mihai with little few adjustments: https://github.com/fepitre/qubes-libcomps https://github.com/fepitre/qubes-librepo https://github.com/fepitre/qubes-libsolv https://github.com/fepitre/qubes-libmodulemd1 https://github.com/fepitre/qubes-libdnf https://github.com/fepitre/qubes-dnf I've built and tested all of them into Bullseye. With this freshly created bullseye template as UpdateVM, it makes dom0 update working like a charm! I can help into testing/maintaining/any other thing needed to make things moving forward for Bullseye and especially having DNF in Debian. Best regards, Frédéric
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