On 2020-05-03 18:07, unman wrote: > On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 12:03:40PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: >> Hi Mihai, >> >> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 05:36:55PM +0200, Mihai Moldovan wrote: >>> I've packaged DNF >> >> cool! >> >>> for Debian and would like to find someone to take over these >>> packages and maintain them as part of the distribution. >>> >>> I'm not a DD and while I believe the packages to be of reasonable if not high >>> quality, I already have enough on my plate and know that I will not be able to >>> properly maintain them, keep up with upstream releases etc. >>> Point in case: while I did the original packaging more than a year, I only >>> updated this set of packages recently when they actually broke with newer Fedora >>> releases (i.e., they were too old to create newer Fedora changeroots when used >>> by mock). >> >> hm, I'd be willing to sponsor and mentor those uploads, but I cannot commit >> to maintaining them as well. Is there anybody out there who would? >> >>> == What is DNF? == >> [...] >>> == Why does Debian need DNF? == >> [...] >>> == Prerequisites == >> [...] >>> == Package List == >> [...] >>> == Repository == >> [...] >> >> all very very nice! It would be a pity to have this rot, but then, without >> maintenance it will anyway eventually... >> >> >> -- >> cheers, >> Holger >> > > Hi Holger > > I'd be happy to take on maintenance of this package, and may be anything > else that's Qubes required but seems to be lapsing in Debian. > I'll do the necessary in the morning. unman, do you have any timeline available for this? We are currently facing the problem of making core-agent-dom0-updates not available in Debian due to missing yum/dnf in bullseye. If you lack time, I could manage to build the package for Qubes as a first step/test. > Also, I wonder if there would be value in getting Qubes packages in to > Debian, so they can be installed straight in to HVM - I seem to recall > this was raised some time back, but dont recall outcome. Waste of time? > > cheers > > unman > Best, Frédéric
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