Bug#835909: O: multistrap -- multiple repository bootstrap based on apt

[Johannes Schauer]

Control: retitle -1 ITA: multistrap -- multiple repository bootstrap based on 
apt
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Hi Neil,

Quoting Neil Williams (2016-12-03 13:26:26)
> On Fri, 02 Dec 2016 23:21:10 +0100
> Johannes Schauer  wrote:
> > does this mean that the "upstream" copy on github will also not be
> > maintained by you anymore and is now dead as well?
> 
> Yes, upstream is dead as well. Feel free to fork it.

okay!

> I'm not aware of any and nobody else has expressed any interest in multistrap
> since I orphaned it. I have no use case for multistrap any longer.

alright, thanks a ton for all the work you did on multistrap!

I hope that I'll be able to take good care of it in the future. :)

cheers, josch


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Bug#835909: O: multistrap -- multiple repository bootstrap based on apt

[Neil Williams]

On Fri, 02 Dec 2016 23:21:10 +0100
Johannes Schauer  wrote:

> Hi Neil,
> 
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 18:32:38 +0100 Neil Williams
>  wrote:
> > I intend to orphan the multistrap package.  
> 
> does this mean that the "upstream" copy on github will also not be
> maintained by you anymore and is now dead as well?

Yes, upstream is dead as well. Feel free to fork it.
 
> As the author of a multistrap wrapper script (which then became
> brickstrap) I'm interested in picking up multistrap development.
> 
> Are there any tools that depend on it and with which backwards
> compatibility has to be maintained? There seem to be no
> Depends/Recommends/Suggests on it within Debian.

I'm not aware of any and nobody else has expressed any interest in
multistrap since I orphaned it. I have no use case for multistrap any
longer.

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Neil Williams
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Bug#835909: O: multistrap -- multiple repository bootstrap based on apt

[Johannes Schauer]

Hi Neil,

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 18:32:38 +0100 Neil Williams  wrote:
> I intend to orphan the multistrap package.

does this mean that the "upstream" copy on github will also not be maintained
by you anymore and is now dead as well?

As the author of a multistrap wrapper script (which then became brickstrap) I'm
interested in picking up multistrap development.

Are there any tools that depend on it and with which backwards compatibility
has to be maintained? There seem to be no Depends/Recommends/Suggests on it
within Debian.

Thanks!

cheers, josch


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Bug#835909: O: multistrap -- multiple repository bootstrap based on apt

[Neil Williams]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the multistrap package.

The package description is:
 A debootstrap replacement with multiple repository support,
 using apt to handle all dependency issues and conflicts.
 .
 Multistrap includes support for native and foreign architecture
 bootstrap environments. Foreign bootstraps only need minimal
 configuration on the final device. Also supports cleaning up the
 generated bootstrap filesystem to remove downloaded packages and
 hooks to modify the files in the bootstrap filesystem after the
 packages have been unpacked but before being configured.
 .
 Unlike debootstrap, multistrap relies on working versions of
 dpkg and apt outside the final filesystem. If dpkg supports
 MultiArch, foreign architecture libraries can be installed,
 where available.
 .
 Multistrap supercedes emdebian-rootfs and replaces the previous
 support for preparing root filesystems for specific machines and
 variants. Multistrap includes the previous emdebian-rootfs support
 for customisation of package selection and of files created
 within the root filesystem.