Bug#1028447: cdist: unusable with python 3.11
Good evening everyone,
Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Steve Langasek wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 10:10:54AM +0100, s3v wrote:
>> > > Anyway, this package has no maintainer and upstream has not fixed this, and
>> > > there are no reverse-dependencies, so I would suggest the package should
>> > > just be removed.
>
> That's IMHO way too harsh given that the package is uptodate with the
> current upstream release despite being orphaned and the issue is
> easily fixable.
I agree and it has been fixed some weeks ago.
>> > Unless I missed something, upstream fixed this issue in [1]
>> > After applying this commit, I was able to build cdist in a sid
>> > chroot environment.
>>
>> > [1] https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/cdist/commit/b974969f28f4
>>
>> Well, that's not the upstream repo listed in debian/copyright, so if someone
>> wants to fix this bug perhaps they also want to fix the upstream pointer.
>
> Ack, https://github.com/telmich/cdist redirects to
> https://github.com/ungleich/cdist, but last commit there is from
> November 2021 and there's no note that it's no more updated.
So, that's a funky problem, I know. We moved away from github, long,
long time ago (probably 2021, that's why you see the last commit there).
However some in the cdist community wanted to keep the git repo on
github alive to allow easier contributions. As this did not really
materialise, we might actually delete and/or redirect that repo to
code.ungleich.ch, too.
> Funnily https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/cdist/#contributing
> refers to https://github.com/ungleich/cdist/pulls
Yes, it says "both" for contributing, but it does not say "we keep the
github repo updated". But yes, I can see how this might be confusing.
Again, the proper upstream URL is
https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/cdist/
and actually we also have a shiny website on...
https://www.cdi.st/
which references only the upstream repo.
> I'll take upstream into Cc so they're aware of these upstream
> infrastructure issues misleading users into thinking that upstream's
> development has stalled.
Much appreciated. I added to my todo list to replace the master branch
on github with a pointer to code.ungleich.ch, referencing this thread.
> I might also do a QA upload fixing these issues. No promises though,
> as I'm a bit out of time these days.
Thanks a lot Axel, much appreciated.
Best regards from Paris,
Nico
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