Hi Alexandre Am 22.09.22 um 01:16 schrieb Alexandre Detiste:
Hi, It looks like UsrMerge finally broke the "cruft" engine for good. As a mix of bash, Perl and ad-hoc C helpers, it has be unmaintainable and mostly unmaintained for so many years. request bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=941998 RM request: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1020293 I wasn't notified about the RM request and stumbled on it by luck, but I won't oppose it, and will consider moving the rule database that is now in cruft-common into cruft-ng; although in a smarter concatenated format, to avoid wasting inodes with tiny 1 line files. Does cruft-ng needs to start providing a transitional "cruft" binary package / command for pre-existing users, or is this such a niche Q&A utility (in the likes of adequate, piuparts, diffoscope, lintian) that it can go without ? cruft-ng still has ways to evolve, for example by processing the globing patterns for R/W files provided in AppArmor templates by more and more packages.
A transitional package which pulls in cruft-ng would have the benefit, that users are automatically upgraded to something that's properly maintained, so from that POV I think it would be worthwile.
Keep in mind though, that the package version of cruft-ng (0.4.54) is lower then that of cruft (0.9.42). So if you want to build the transitional package from src:cruft-ng you either need to bump the source version of cruft-ng to something >= 0.9.43, or do some version mangling via debian/rules by overriding dh_gencontrol.
I notice that cruft-ng ships the binary as /usr/bin/cruft-ng. So if the comamnd line interface are the same / similar enough, you could consider having the cruft transitional package ship a symlink or small wrapper script.
Regards, Michael
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