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Bug#975381: marked as done (Subject: libinih: drop Debian's custom vendorisation)

Your message dated Sun, 31 Jan 2021 21:50:26 -0600
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Package: tech-ctte
Severity: wishlist

Currently the package libinih uses some heavy patches, which aren't upstream
and aren't used by any other distro. I'm in favor of dropping this, but the
current maintainer disagrees and we weren't able to make any progess in the
discussion, so I want to put this here. Parts of the discussion can be found on
this MR: https://salsa.debian.org/yangfl-guest/inih/-/merge_requests/2

To understand this, one has to look a bit at the history behind inih. Upstream
was designed as a static library for embedded devices, and therefore has a lot
of compile time options. At this point, the current maintainer created a patch
to make all compile time option available on runtime.

When gamemode started using inih, I wanted to get rid of shipped inih code and
upstreamed a build system to inih for a shared library, that any distro can
use. This was done in version 48. Due to the popularity of gamemode, inih is
now found in most major distros (all without Debian's patches):
https://repology.org/project/inih/versions

There is a notable "exception": inih is not in Ubuntu's main repository. This
is a bit weird because gamemode is in main, but with the shipped inih source
which got dropped from 1.6, meaning gamemode is stuck on 1.5.1 on Ubuntu. I'm
not sure why, but I suspect the heavy patches make it harder to be included in
main.

Because the library was designed for embedded use cases where every little bit
of performance matters, the runtime patch was refused upstream. Dropping the
runtime patch from Debian actually isn't problem, no reverse dependency of
libinih uses compile time options anyway. However, due to the history of inih
in Debian is has the soversion 1, while upstream is soversion 0.

I want to drop the vendorisation of Debian and start a transition to soversion
0 (which is also a reason I contact the Technical Committee, as it's not clear
how this would be done). A transition is needed anyway since dropping the patch
is a breaking change anyway. If the Technical Committee agrees to this, I would
also gladly help to maintain this package since it is 2 version behind upstream
since almost half a year and I maintain gamemode, which is directly affected by
this.

This isn't urgent, but it would be nice to get this done till bulleseye.
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Hello,

The Technical Committee has decided to close this bug without further
action, because:

- While this bug reflects a difference in opinion regarding the
  packaging of libinih, said conflict does not impact Debian. The
  submitter is an Ubuntu maintainer, and –as stated in the bug report–
  it could be fixed downstream (i.e. in Ubuntu itself). We will not
  overrule a Debian Developer on issues not pertinent to Debian.

- The bug was opened by Stephan Lachnit for the Technical Committee to
  act upon on November 21, 2020. That very same day, the Debian
  Developer who maintains this package replied. Three weeks later,
  Sean Whitton asked on behalf of the Technical Committee for further
  input to better understand the issues at hand. A couple of days
  later, Andreas Metzler showed some examples where Stephan's claims
  didn't hold. We had no further input from Stephan; we cannot act on
  reports basically dropped on us.

If there os something we are missing here, we would encourage the
original submitter, Stephan Lachnit, or anybody sharing their opinion,
to resubmit/reopen, providing a more complete (and more grounded
_within Debian_) summary.

On behalf of the Debian Technical Committe,

  - Gunnar Wolf.

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