On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 03:58:55PM +0200, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote: > > Please keep packages you care about in a good shape in Debian. I > > assume you've read the past discussion in this bug and realize that > > even mono itself is unmaintained, very outdated and RC-buggy and > > package like it often miss stable releases even when they aren't > > removed from unstable. > > This is actually part of my plan, because the loss of Debian-provided > packages for the Mono runtime and libraries would be a big blow to our > unvendoring effort. While the Debian packages are mostly unmaintained, > they are still in a better state that the vendored binaries we replace > by the Debian builds. > > But this is really daunting for a maintainer like me with little > experience outside of packages I happen to be the upstream of. I would > be willing to take over the maintenance of src:mono if I could be > accompanied/mentored at least for the initial salvaging effort, but I > don’t feel like diving into that alone.
Sure, but AFAIK so far nobody else announced they want to keep mono in a good shape, not mentioning updating it to a recent version, so... A good start would be fixing the FTBFS. I have no idea how hard it's to update it to the recent version. > > > If by "a handful of Mono libraries" you mean > > libraries not built from src:mono please keep those in a good shape > > in Debian too (I would be surprised if all of them are still in > > debian though, as there are maybe 5 of such libraries in Debian). > > I think all the ones we rely on with ./play.it are built from src:mono. Good. -- WBR, wRAR
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