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Re: Fwd: Registering ebs-snapshot with euca2ools



Le Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:53:51PM +0100, Anders Ingemann a écrit :
> > I volunteer to upload euca2ools to backports.debian.org, which would then
> be version 2.0.x if that is fine.
> That would be awesome! All I really need is 1.3 though.
> > But if folks cannot recreate something with Debian, then this is non-free.
> I'm not sure I follow? If it's about hosting the tool somewhere else, i am
> totally fine with that. I have never tried packaging anything for debian.
> I do like developing on github though, so I am going to keep using that on
> a day to day basis. This can easily be resolved by simply having two
> remotes :-)
> I would also be fine with transferring ownership of the repo to the debian
> user on github.

Hi Anders and Steffen,

thumbs up for the euca2ools backport, please do not hesitate to push a
debian-backport-squeeze branch in the source package's repository.  Note that
neither euca2ools, nor python-boto nor python-m2crypto (which you will also
need to backport) need python 2.7 according to their Depends lines, so the
backport looks straightforward.

About the Debian account on GitHub, I think that it is there by a fragile
consensus, as GitHub is considered non-free because it does not release its
source code.  We are therefore limiting its use as an exchange point with
upstreams who use GitHub as their primary distribution source, but we always
keep another clone on a Free platform (typically Alioth), and do not use it for
development specifically on GitHub.  In particular, I recently refused to use
the Debian account on GitHub to mirror Debian native package such as dpkg, d-i,
etc.  (General discussions about the Debian account on GitHub are more on-topic
on debian-project@l.d.o, so please transfer the discussion there if needed).

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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