Of course I meant Anders' build script, not Amazon's. :) - Jimmy
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Jimmy Kaplowitz <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Zack, > > Currently even the EC2 part of Amazon's build script pulls a specific > version of euca2ools from Eucalyptus's github site during the build > process. It also pulls a boto patch from Red Hat's bugzilla and applies it. > While none of this bothers me from a freeness perspective, it doesn't meet > Lucas's criterion (A) (about all software coming from Debian). I'm not > trying to make value judgments based on semantics here - clearly everyone's > goal is for all of the images, tools, and _if_ appropriate the official > criteria, to evolve toward happy harmony in the end. > > Discussing this in an extended fashion as a tangent within a tangent of > the original thread topic is probably the wrong place for it, though. :) > I'm happy to report that I'll be attending DebConf13, and a non-DD > colleague or two from this effort at Google will be joining me. That seems > like the ideal place to get started on comprehensive progress bridging all > the relevant gaps. > > - Jimmy > > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 11:10:25AM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: >> > even though most or all of Debian's public cloud images don't yet >> > count as official by Lucas's definition >> >> Uh? Can you expand on why you think it is the case? AFAICT the EC2 >> images should qualify as official images, ditto for the Azure ones >> (although I'm less on top of their build process so I might be missing >> something there). >> >> Either way, if we have criteria, it would be useful to go through them >> as a sort of checklist and see who's in and who's out. >> >> FWIW, I've clarified with Lucas point (C) on IRC, arriving at a slightly >> better version: >> >> C) the image generation tools are maintained inside Debian and/or by a >> Debian team, using usual Debian recommended practices >> >> My objective, IMHO satisfied by the above criterion, was to make it >> clear that Anders' script totally qualifies. >> >> Cheers. >> -- >> Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . [email protected] . . . . o . . . o . o >> Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o >> Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . >> « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » >> > >
