If you could team upload  as well that would be great!

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 9:53 AM Thorsten Glaser <t.gla...@tarent.de> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jan 2020, Anuradha Weeraman wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the feedback.
> >
> > Happy to receive a PR and support with uploading ksh93. Will replicate
> > accordingly to  ksh2020 as well.
>
> You’re welcome.
>
> Just to be clear:
>
> > > > Thanks. Are you going to package ksh93 as well, or should
> > > > I do that (I’m a DD and can do it easily)?
>
> > You can find a branch on Salsa for ksh93 with the alternatives support
> here:
> > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ksh/tree/debian/ksh93
>
> > I've done some co-existence testing on it. If you could review and help
> > sponsor the package that would be awesome.
>
> Should I review, possibly fix up, and then team-upload it?
>
>
> > > More questions, from looking at the debdiff:
> > >
> > > >>  * Use alternative system for ksh, shcomp and rksh
> > >
> > > You’re setting these up as slaves of /bin/ksh, which however
> > > does not work if the user chooses /bin/ksh to be mksh but
> > > still wants to have shcomp for ksh93 or ksh2020 available.
> > >
> > > I’d separate at _least_ shcomp into its own alternative,
> > > if not rksh (which _can_ be configured separately from ksh,
> > > but does not need to; currently, mksh does not provide rksh,
> > > but in the future it might).
> > >
> > > +++ ksh-2020.0.0/debian/gitlab-ci.yml   2020-01-19 07:43:52.000000000
> +0100
> > > +  SALSA_CI_PIUPARTS_ARGS: --ignore=/etc/shells
> > >
> > > This will not work in practice: piuparts as run by britney
> > > (Debian testing migration) doesn’t read this, and so it will
> > > never migrate. The cause is easy:
> > >
> > > +++ ksh-2020.0.0/debian/ksh.postinst    2020-01-19 07:43:52.000000000
> +0100
> > > +add-shell /bin/ksh
> > > +add-shell /bin/rksh
> > >
> > > Please *don’t* add /bin/ksh (and /bin/rksh) to /etc/shells;
> > > both ksh before your change and mksh don’t do that, and we
> > > decided some time back to let the user only add explicit
> > > choices, not things from the alternative system, as shell,
> > > so they keep their shell even when the alternative changes.
> > >
> > > Please also remove the comment referring #790118 there, as
> > > it was superceded by the above discussion.
> > >
> > > Doing this will fix piuparts at the same time ☻
> > >
> > > shcomp2020.1 and 0001-List-only-supported-names-for-ksh.patch
> > > also need the new names.
> > >
> > > Do you want me to prepare a pull request with these changes,
> > > and, possibly, upload them (to save you effort)?
>
> Just to be clear: should I only prepare a pull request, or
> should I also team-upload the changes?
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos (mksh developer and packager; Debian Developer)
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