On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 7:29 AM Tom Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > > tl;dr popular Go CLI app wants to know how to be Debian-friendly > > Hi, > > I'm the author of chezmoi, a popular dotfile manager with over 9K GitHub > stars written in Go, that is available in many distributions.
The only stable release distro I see is Alpine Linux. And apparently it's like many other projects that the version in the stable distro is stuck at an old version without receiving upstream support and security updates. And it means it's the distro maintainer's responsibility to keep these old versions working and patch security issues. > > I, and chezmoi's users, would love for chezmoi to be included in Debian. > There's an existing Debian bug for this, and an existing issue in the chezmoi > repo. > > What is tricky is that chezmoi has regular releases (roughly, a minor version > every two weeks), including fixing security problems and updating > dependencies, that make it effectively impossible for Debian packaging to > follow. > > Would you consider accepting chezmoi as a vendored package, as happened with > Kubernetes? > With the issue mentioned above, I don't see chezmoi being comparable to kubernetes. > To support this effort, I try to be friendly to maintainers and will happily > make any necessary changes to the chezmoi repo. > > Please advise, > Tom -- Shengjing Zhu
