Bug#854181: RFH: busybox -- Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Shadura  (2017-02-06):
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We're entering the deep freeze in a few hours, and this mail should have
> been sent a while ago, but let's not delay this any further: the Debian
> Installer team requests assistance with maintaining the busybox package.
> [ So please make sure to include debian-b...@lists.debian.org in copy
> if you're replying to this message. ]
> 
> 
> I think I could help. I'll have a look when I'm home from FOSDEM.

Friendly reminder: busybox still needs a maintainer. ;)


KiBi.


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Bug#854181: RFH: busybox -- Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems

[Andrew Shadura]

Hi,

On 4 Feb 2017 19:16, "Cyril Brulebois"  wrote:

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

Hi,

We're entering the deep freeze in a few hours, and this mail should have
been sent a while ago, but let's not delay this any further: the Debian
Installer team requests assistance with maintaining the busybox package.
[ So please make sure to include debian-b...@lists.debian.org in copy
if you're replying to this message. ]


I think I could help. I'll have a look when I'm home from FOSDEM.

-- 
Cheers.

Bug#854181: RFH: busybox -- Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems

[Ben Hutchings]

On Sat, 2017-02-04 at 19:16 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
[...]
> The busybox-udeb package is one of the basic building blocks of the
> Debian Installer, which means that busybox maintenance includes making
> sure any regressions spotted there can be fixed in a timely manner.

Plus it's used by initramfs-tools (by default).

Ben.

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Bug#854181: RFH: busybox -- Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems

[Michael Tokarev]

On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 19:16:16 +0100 Cyril Brulebois  wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We're entering the deep freeze in a few hours, and this mail should have
> been sent a while ago, but let's not delay this any further: the Debian
> Installer team requests assistance with maintaining the busybox package.
> [ So please make sure to include debian-b...@lists.debian.org in copy
> if you're replying to this message. ]

I maintained BB before for several years (as my usage of it required more
things than debian cared about), and later managed it in Debian (incorporating
my changes and sorting bugs) for some time too.

I continue to maintain it locally after I had to step down from maintaining
it in Debian (due to a conflict between me and the D-I team I'm tryin to
not touch any packages which produces udebs, eg mdadm which I maintained
before too).

But since locally I don't need D-I, I dropped udeb support in local packaging.
So re-incorporating it requires some efforts anyway.

I can help maintaining it, but unfortunately it looks like I can't become
its maintainer again because of the above mentioned conflict.  And it
wont help for stretch anyway, it is way too late to touch busybox at this
stage of the release cycle.

Thanks,

/mjt

Bug#854181: RFH: busybox -- Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems

[Cyril Brulebois]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

Hi,

We're entering the deep freeze in a few hours, and this mail should have
been sent a while ago, but let's not delay this any further: the Debian
Installer team requests assistance with maintaining the busybox package.
[ So please make sure to include debian-b...@lists.debian.org in copy
if you're replying to this message. ]

The description of the main package is the following:
 BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a
 single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for the
 most common utilities you would usually find on your desktop system
 (i.e., ls, cp, mv, mount, tar, etc.). The utilities in BusyBox
 generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins;
 however, the options that are included provide the expected
 functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts.
 .
 This package installs the BusyBox binary but does not install symlinks
 for any of the supported utilities. Some of the utilities can be used
 in the system by installing the busybox-syslogd, busybox-udhcpc or
 busybox-udhcpd packages.

The full list of binaries is as follows:
 - busybox
 - busybox-static
 - busybox-udeb
 - busybox-syslogd
 - udhcpc
 - udhcpd

The busybox-udeb package is one of the basic building blocks of the
Debian Installer, which means that busybox maintenance includes making
sure any regressions spotted there can be fixed in a timely manner.


KiBi.