Bug#986152: Offer of help
Hi,
Replying to the latest messages in the thread in one go...
On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 02:35:17PM +0000, Jeremy Sowden wrote:
> I've created a Shorewall team on tracker.d.o and added you both to it.
Thanks!
On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 08:51:54AM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> For a bit of historical context, the current multi-branch structure from
> the SF repo is quite antiquiated. It is from a time before debhelper
> supported multiple .orig.tar.gz components. It might make sense to
> consider starting with a new repo, with a more sensible branch
> structure (one that works more easily with tools like gbp), and that
> makes use of the multi-tarball capabilities so that you have have all
> the source packages in view at the same time.
That would be simpler indeed. The only worry is that it probably means
going through NEW very close to freeze... but on the other hand it eases
maintenance for the next few years in stable.
On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 08:48:38AM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> My needs have been evolving the last few years and I have much less of a
> need for a tool like Shorewall these days. Additionally, I have never
> used some of the advanced features (e.g., Multi-ISP, tc, accounting,
> etc.). It would be good to have others involved in maintenance who are
> able to contribute in that way.
FWIW, I use the Multi-ISP feature.
> I'd like to mention that there is already a Gitlab group for upstream
> Shorewall work (which has been essentially dormant for some time):
> https://gitlab.com/shorewall
>
> It might make sense to consider if there is any overlap and if any of
> the Salsa work might be better house under the Shorewall Gitlab group.
Personally, I'm not a fan of hosting Debian source on upstream
infrastructure. And Salsa provides preconfigured CI pipelines that are
very useful. (I configured them already but they didn't run because
nothing was pushed the new repo yet.)
On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 10:38:43AM +0000, Jeremy Sowden wrote:
> I've managed to coax gbp into importing 5.2.8 into one upstream branch
> with each upstream tar-ball as a subdirectory:
>
> [azazel@ulthar:/space/azazel/work/git/repos/salsa/azazel/shorewall (master>)] $ ls -1
> debian/
> shorewall/
> shorewall6/
> shorewall6-lite/
> shorewall-core/
> shorewall-docs-xml/
> shorewall-init/
> shorewall-lite/
> I'm currently working on merging the debian/ directories.
Cool! Thanks for working on this.
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