Hi, On 2026-05-06 07:59, Harsha Bhattacharyya via skaware wrote:
I was wondering if it was possible that I could help package the full s6-linux-init and other skaware that are not already packaged into debian and hence devuan? I have spoken to the devuan developers and they seem interested, if you could permit me (and help me when needed) to go through with this process, I would appreciate it.
you are not alone with the wish to bring the latest updates to Debian/Devuan. I have also started to work on that and would be happy to combine our efforts.
For Debian, there have been no updates of all skarnet software packages for more than a year, so in order to get s6-frontend and s6-linux-init included, it will be necessary to create updated packages for all dependency packages skalibs, execline, s6 and s6-rc.
skalibs needs to be updated first, because all other packages depend on that. The wish for a Debian package update of skalibs is tracked here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1135879
Should the current maintainer be no longer active, we would need to create updates for the Debian packages. You can find the current state of my work here:
https://salsa.debian.org/sauermann/skalibs/-/tree/debian/latest Best wishes Markus
