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Re: [qubes-devel] Re: DNF for Debian



On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 10:34:19AM +0200, Frédéric Pierret wrote:
> Hi,
> I've published on Debian mentors the corresponding packages:
> 
> - libcomps
> - librepo
> - modulemd1

Hmm, I have an ITP bug open for libmodulemd as part of my work on
createrepo-c and my libmodulemd package is already in NEW :)
https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html

Sorry I did not react sooner and you may have done some work that may
have duplicated mine... that's kind of the point of ITP bugs though :)

> - libdnf
> - dnf
> 
> There is mostly one commit above the source of Mihai with "Uploaders"
> field added. Lintian reports several things to improve but I would
> like to have some feedback/help on making this moving forward from
> Debian side first before doing any new moves. Also this set of
> packages relies on libsolv but the patch set of Mihai has been
> currently reverted
> (https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libsolv/-/commit/730e23a04b397cd8d8d28c8081e5ade968e04176)
> due to pending Debian strategy about global RPM integration.

BTW would some of these be better in the RPM packaging group?

G'luck,
Peter

> On 2020-06-21 21:31, Frédéric Pierret wrote:
> > 
> > On 2020-05-29 12:43, Holger Levsen wrote:
> >> hi Mihai,
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 12:17:13PM +0200, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
> >>> Sorry for the late response. I've been busy, and, honestly, also always forgot
> >>> to actually answer.
> >>
> >> thanks for your reply & don't worry, this happens often & to many people, me
> >> included.
> >>  
> >>> unman seems to be interested, if that's good enough, so there's that.
> >>
> >> that is good enough if not much better than that.
> >>  
> >>>> all very very nice! It would be a pity to have this rot, but then, without
> >>>> maintenance it will anyway eventually...
> >>>
> >>> Personally, I will have to "maintain" the package sets anyway, because I'm
> >>> building a lot of Fedora/CentOS packages in an automatic fashion on Debian.
> >>>
> >>> This "maintenance" just means that I'll probably update stuff every half a year
> >>> or year, though, essentially "whenever it breaks" (which does tend to happen).
> >> [...]
> >>> As given in the initial description, I've published source and binary packages
> >>> for Debian Unstable/Sid at https://packages.x2go.org/debian-test/pool/main/
> >>>
> >>> Note that the binaries are a bit old by now and would probably like a rebuild,
> >>> but the source is still the one I'm also using on my package builder.
> >>>
> >>> Also, the packages became a bit stale version wise (after all, they are 9 month
> >>> old by now) and some included patches have already been applied upstream. I
> >>> haven't tried updating (and testing any updates) yet, though, and probably won't
> >>> come to that shortly either.
> >>  
> >> the important part is whether we'll get these packages ready and up to date
> >> until end of 2020 *and* whether we can commit to maintain important fixes after that.
> >>
> >> end of 2020 because of "key release dates" on https://release.debian.org/
> >>
> >> it's ok(ish) if the stuff is outdated today, but in 6 month it really should be current.
> >> (and then after the release we can slack a bit again, though usually it's
> >> less effort to always package and upload the latest version.)
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > Hi everyone,
> > I've packaged for Qubes all the work (not the dnf plugins as we don't need it currently) of Mihai with little few adjustments:
> > 
> > https://github.com/fepitre/qubes-libcomps
> > https://github.com/fepitre/qubes-librepo
> > https://github.com/fepitre/qubes-libsolv
> > https://github.com/fepitre/qubes-libmodulemd1
> > https://github.com/fepitre/qubes-libdnf
> > https://github.com/fepitre/qubes-dnf
> > 
> > I've built and tested all of them into Bullseye. With this freshly created bullseye template as UpdateVM, it makes dom0 update working like a charm!
> > 
> > I can help into testing/maintaining/any other thing needed to make things moving forward for Bullseye and especially having DNF in Debian.


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