Hello Tony, sorry for my late answer. I'm moving from Germany to Malta next week, which means a lot of work. I have use your opinion (a). It's uploaded to mentors and into git. Thank you very much for your answers and your efforts. CU Jörg -- New: GPG Fingerprint: 63E0 075F C8D4 3ABB 35AB 30EE 09F8 9F3C 8CA1 D25D GPG key (long) : 09F89F3C8CA1D25D GPG Key : 8CA1D25D CAcert Key S/N : 0E:D4:56 Jörg Frings-Fürst DE-54470 Lieser L-Għarb, Gozo, MT-GRB 1131 git: https://git.jff.email/cgit/ Matrix: @joergff:matrix.org My wish list: - Please send me a picture from the nature at your home. Am Sonntag, dem 23.03.2025 um 04:43 +0000 schrieb tony mancill: > Hi Jörg, > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 07:19:29PM +0100, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: > > Hello Tony, > > > > I have update enterprise-numbers.txt in release 1.8.19-6. > > I see that update to the contents of the file in 1.8.19-6. > > > Deleted was the file with the release 1.8.19-7.1 (NMU from Shengqi Chen > > <harry-chen@outlook.com> ) > > $ dpkg-deb -c ipmitool_1.8.19-7.1_amd64.deb | grep numbers > -rw-r--r-- root/root 4637432 2024-10-27 08:57 ./usr/share/misc/enterprise-numbers.txt > > In fact, I see enterprise-numbers.txt present these versions: > > ipmitool_1.8.19-4+deb12u1 <-- first Debian revision to include it > ipmitool_1.8.19-4+deb12u2 > ipmitool_1.8.19-5 > ipmitool_1.8.19-6 > ipmitool_1.8.19-7 > ipmitool_1.8.19-7.1 > > > My idea was to download a current file version directly during > > installation and via a cron job. > > > > After some discussion, however, I discarded this idea. Unfortunately, I > > can't say why Shengqi Chen removed the file in his version. > > I can't find an explicit reference to it in Debian Policy, but > downloading from an external network site as part of the package > postinst doesn't seem like a common practice. Ideally, the package is > self-contained. > > Since the enterprise-numbers.txt file is included in the packages in > bookworm and in all packages during the testing/trixie, my suggestion is > to either: > > (a) include it in 1.8.19-8 package for trixie and remove the cronjob > > or > > (b) migrate enterprise-numbers.txt into a new arch:all package named > ipmitool-data and have ipmitool declare either a Depends or Recommends > relationship on the new ipmitool-data package. That avoids having to > include the file each of the arch:any binary packages. The new -data > package might also include the cronjob to be configured optionally by > the user. > > However, option (b) will require that the package go through NEW. > Technically, there is enough time before the hard freeze on April 15th, > but the Release Team is probably quite busy, and it is possible that the > package could be delayed. > > For that reason, I recommend option (a) for now, and we can work on > option (b) for trixie+1 (forky) if you like. > > And finally, thank you for maintaining ipmitool! > > Cheers, > tony
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