Re: sbsigntool - very out of date in Debian
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:36:20PM +0100, Pierre Chifflier wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 04:41:03PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> >I have a package that is almost OK (packaging files are done, I nee to
>> >update/remove the quilt packages, which is the hard part).
>> >After that, I should be able to do an upload quickly.
>> >Let me know if that would be OK for you? I should know for sure
>> >today if the patches can be easily updated.
>>
>> Sure, that works.
>
>OK, so good news is I succeeded in creating a package.
>However, I'm not sure the sources are imported correctly, because
>upstream does not distribute complete tarballs [1], only the git uri,
>which contains submodules [2].
>I had to fight and re-create a tarball from the git - if someone knows
>a better solution please tell me.
:-/
>Also, the package will only be very lightly tested (it passes 'make
>check' and some basic tests here).
OK, cool. Worth warning! :-)
>> >Independently, I think it'd be better to have team maintenance, so if I
>> >can join the team so me and other maintainers can work on it that would
>> >be perfect for me.
>>
>> Awesome. I've just added you to the efi-team group in salsa as a
>> developer right now to make that easy. If you can point me at a git
>> repo for your sbsigntool stuff I'll import it into salsa now. (gitlab
>> permissions don't seem to let folks with "developer" permissions in a
>> group create new projects, sigh.)
>
>I built the package for 0.9.2 here, and uploaded the packaging tree to
>salsa (https://salsa.debian.org/pollux/sbsigntool). This repo is a
>temporary one, for import into team repo, and/or reviews.
>If the package is fine, I'll upload it (for ex tomorrow).
https://salsa.debian.org/efi-team/sbsigntool
Sorry for the delay, yesterday got ... hectic. :-/
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
Is there anybody out there?
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