Hi, Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> (2022-05-08): > I don't understand what is holding an upload right now, -- the salsa > busybox repository is more than 3 months old now. I think it is ready > for an upload, - I think we should do it and deal with any issues > which may come.
Without knowing about the busybox situation specifically, it happens that people prepare stuff but don't feel the need or confidence to upload, so they can stay around for a while. > I'd only do some minor touches there which I noticed immediately - > like, enabling the tr equivalence classes for the static busybox > build too, just like it is done for the regular deb. > > In d/patches/ there's a hackish patch temp-deb-installer-hack.patch > which seriously needs addressing I think (not in this upload though), > -- has anything been done in this direction, to get values from the > kernel command line in some more sane place than shell environment? Oh, what a blast from the past. It's been temporary for 5 years… > I'm still not familiar with d-i and its internals, so I need some > help there. At least some discussion should be happening, I think, > because this seems to be a serious change for the d-i. Yet keeping > this patch does not seem to be a good idea. Well, I can understand the feeling but unless maintaining the patch itself is a burden (which I kind of doubt, given it's quite targeted), in which case I'm happy to help, it only affects the udeb, and makes sure we don't break preseeding gratuitously… > So, to sum it up the tl;dr way: > > - is it okay for you if I help with bb, with its upload and with > further maintenance? Absolutely, thanks for stepping up. > - is there anything that is holding the upload now which I'm not > aware of? No idea about that one. I'm fine with a temporary breakage in unstable anyway, in case things don't work out immediately. > - do we have anything in the d-i kernel command line processing > front, in moving stuff from $env-vars to some saner place? I don't recall whatever happened after we introduced this patch, I'm not sure we did much work there. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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