“source-build” is the project within Microsoft which aims to produce “upstream tarballs” in a sufficiently from-source form to satisfy FOSS distributions. Fedora has had dotnet for a while as a result, a collaboration between the source-build team in Utah and a distributed set of folks at Red Hat (Fedora’s from-source requirements are slightly different from the DFSG, but not meaningfully so). Roughly speaking, source-build has to reconcile about 30 separate dotnet repos, in order to produce an upstream-equivalent dotnet SDK. I know that team has been engaging with someone at Canonical about Ubuntu packaging, I can reach out to find out who that is, and see whether that work could be uploaded to Debian first as a matter of course Sent from Mail for Windows From: Mirco Bauer Hello Mike, thanks for your interest in getting pinta updated in Debian. The other day I noticed as well that pinta is outdated in Debian and it does not look like there is a simple way forward, unfortunately. Pinta has moved to the dotnet runtime which is not packaged in Debian. Many years ago I worked on getting the dotnet core runtime into Debian (just as I did to get Mono into Debian back then) but I hit hard problems that prevented it. The dotnet runtime could not be build from source which is not compliant with the DFSG. Microsoft had shown interest and I have advised them on how to make dotnet DFSG compliant so it could be included in Debian and Ubuntu, but it was clear it won't happen overnight as building cleanly from source (bootstrapping a runtime) isn't trivial and needed a major effort on the upstream side. Later this effort deepened between Microsoft and Redhat to make dotnet buildable from source, which is great. I am not sure if you can build dotnet from source at this point, maybe it is possible by now. I could never find time to follow-up on this as I started to work for demanding startups that leave little to no spare time. If you are interested to get dotnet into Debian I am still available for mentoring and going in the right direction, I would like to see dotnet packaged still, it is a fantastic software development platform. The #debian-cli IRC channel on OFTC is the place where the Mono and .NET friends hang out, so feel invited to join us. Best regards,
Chief InfoSec Officer mirco.bauer@eqonex.com https://group.eqonex.com/ FOSS Hacker meebey@meebey.net https://www.meebey.net/ Debian Developer meebey@debian.org https://www.debian.org/ GNOME Foundation Member mmmbauer@gnome.org https://www.gnome.org/ .NET Foundation Advisory Council Member https://www.dotnetfoundation.org/ PGP-Key ID 0x7127E5ABEEF946C8 https://meebey.net/pubkey.asc On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 4:05 AM Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote: Hi all, |