Jing Luo <[email protected]> writes: > 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].
I am happy to sponsor an upload of this into Debian, we'll just have to review the packaging for latest Debian standards wrt copyright/license etc. Indeed it was removed a long time ago: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libnss-mysql If you agree, could you add gitlab.trisquel.org username 'jas' to your project and we could co-maintain it? Please add me as Maintainer so I can add CI/CD-style integration, it would be cool to see if using Debian Salsa CI/CD pipeline works on gitlab.trisquel.org (although I recall using this before). It is very good that Bob did a new release! That establishes a new upstream and make things clear. /Simon > 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
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