Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny
Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Even though Debian is not RPM based, it's very important to have a
> working Yum package in Debian, just to be able to setup all sorts of yum
> based distribution in a chroot for setting-up VMs.
Indeed.
> Unfortunately, it seems that the current maintainer of Yum in Debian
> haven't been active for a long time, and the current package in Lenny is
> simply not working. I consider that having a non-working yum package in
> Debian Lenny is a grave regression.
I've put the co-maintainer in Cc so he can comment on whether he wants
to take over full maintainership or wants extra co-maintainers or wants
to orphan the package...
> With a little bit of communication, I've been able to make a working yum
> package, and I could setup a CentOS on a Xen dom0 Lenny server. Please
> read this:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496137
>
> Having yum working means that we need the python-iniparse and
> python-gpgme packages (which will both reach SID after Lenny is out, as
> said the new package maintainers), as SHOULD depend on it. The Lenny
> version doesn't unfortunately.
Why is the python-iniparse also needed? That's not clear from the bug
report.
> My proposal, as it's of course too late for the first release of Lenny,
> is that python-iniparse and python-gpgme, plus a patched version of Yum,
> would be prepared and send in "lenny proposed updates". The thing is that:
>
> - I don't know what is the way to send it to proposed updates
http://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates
> - I'm not comfortable with python packages, and I don't think it's a
> good idea that I take over the maintainership of yum in Debian, even
> though I really need this package. Any volunteer out there?
Waiting for an answer of the co-maintainer...
Cheers
Luk
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