Hello Axel, > sorry for the late reply.
No worries, it wasn't late and I don't mind if you take your time :) > Will hopefully finish that part this night and upload. Didn't find > much time for packaging the past few days. Awesome, > I though do _not_ intent to import 1.9.0 or the Jumbo patch before > Bullseye. There are quite some reverse dependencies to john and I do > not want to break any of them at this stage of the freeze as I don't > know that much about the Jumbo patch. I just know that Kali already > has it (and 1.9.0) packaged. > > I also have not much of an idea how well the licenses of the Jumbo > patch have been reviewed for inclusion in Debian, which could pose > another source for RC bugs. I was about to send an email talking about this, I started working on it myself to get an idea of how much work will be needed and I totally gave up trying to get it for bullseye (especially considering the deadline for NEW is tomorrow). > * Check how much the packaging from Kali and Debian differs. > * Check how well debian/copyright was maintained in Kali for the jumbo > patch part. > * Eventually merge the two packagings and upload the result to > Experimental (at least if we're still in the freeze then). I agree with your plan of action. Here are a few notes I got from my quick look at it: * d/rules is still complex and quite different, so reviewing them will take a good chunk of time. * d/patches does not change much, it will be easier to sync from kali (assuming we won't need more patches on top of it). * d/copyright from kali looks good but there's still about 4 hours of work needed to finish it (as debmake -k shows me). I have started it but it's a slow process because it's the most boring thing ever. So far I haven't spotted any license incompatibility but I'm afraid there might be some binaries on the sources (haven't confirmed it yet). * d/watch from kali is pointing to github, I changed my local version to keep using upstream's website as the signatures are only provided there, it was an easy change. * testing will have to be extensive, considering the scope of the changes and how john has all sorts of tweaks for different architectures > In other news: I just uploaded plaso with the last RC bug fixed. Great, thanks for joining the team :) -- Samuel Henrique <samueloph>
