Re: Sia

[Free Ekanayaka <freee@debian.org>]

Hi,

yeah, while having an always up-to-date package would be great, it's
probably not feasible for the time being. So I'm fine to -rm it.

Cheers,

Free

Nilesh Patra <nilesh@riseup.net> writes:

> Hi Simon,
>
> On 14/12/24 3:03 pm, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> What's the status of Sia in Debian?
>> 
>> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sia
>
> I did the last upload just as a part of bugfixing work. However, when I 
> talked to Shengjing about it on IRC channel, they suggested to not 
> release this package since this is a blockchain based package and not 
> keeping it updated to latest version can result in netsplit.
>
> This also has a fairly low popcon and IMO we can -rm it.
>
>  > Any ideas how to resolve that build problem?
>
> If there's still interest, I can try to dig in, but I feel it is not 
> worth the investing the time.
>
>  > I see that Sia moved to GitLab and have release up to 1.5.6 and then 
> it moved back to another place at GitHub:
>  >
>  > https://github.com/SiaFoundation
>
> Yep, that's what I remember as well.
>
>  > However I can't find the proper repository anymore.
>
> Right - it seems the original code is split into different repositories 
> and developed separately.
>
> Best,
> Nilesh