Hi,Does trisquel accept trisquel-specific/native packages? I failed to find any documentation on this.
I have a package called libnss-mysql, which was removed from Debian around 2015 because it was "unmaintained, upstream dead, low popularity contest score, nobody uses it". Savannah has been depending on libnss-mysql for about two decades; we use it for authenticating member vcs access. Since it was removed from Debian (and later Trisquel), Bob Proulx has been maintaining libnss-mysql, even though neither the original author nor debian developers touch it anymore. Very recently, Bob "official" took over/hard-forked it and made a new upstream release [1]. So we can say that the upstream is alive again.
Since I am pretty sure there is no hope reintroduce libnss-mysql into Debian because of the lack of interest (quite a few libnss libraries are also unmaintained in Debian), I think it would be a good thing to have it packaged for Trisquel, because GNU uses/needs it. Therefore I would like to maintain the deb packaging of libnss-mysql, and I pushed a WIP tree here [2].
Which bring me to the question in the beginning: does trisquel accept packages? (how) can I submit a package to Trisquel? I recently adopted an orphaned package in Debian, so I am somewhat familiar with how Debian does things.
Note: there are a few more packages that may be in a similar situation where there is no hope to introduce them into Debian, but GNU and Savannah need it. I am talking about GNU Bazzar: it was maintained by Canonical, but Canonical abandoned it in 2017 and made a fork called breezy, and they explicitly expressed that they would not cooperate with GNU on maintaining Bazzar (very unsurprising for Canonical to say this). Since then, breezy has replaced Bazzar in Debian. From other communication channels, I heard that the GNU maintainer of Bazzar now is willing to pick up the development of Bazzar. I dont speak for all Savannah hackers, but because Savannah still supports Bazzar vcs, it would be a bonus point for GNU and Savannah if we can get Bazzar packages into Trisquel (again). I would volunteer as the package (co-)maintainer when the time comes.
[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/administration/libnss-mysql.git [2] https://gitlab.trisquel.org/del111/libnss-mysql -- Jing Luo About me: https://jing.rocks/about/ GPG Fingerprint: 4E09 8D19 00AA 3F72 1899 2614 09B3 316E 13A1 1EFC
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