On 13 January 2022 at 19:18, Ross Vandegrift wrote: | On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 10:31:03AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > You have a large set there which covers three of the ones I'd need. Could | > you upload these: | > | > https://salsa.debian.org/rvandegrift/aws-c-common | > https://salsa.debian.org/rvandegrift/aws-checksums | > https://salsa.debian.org/rvandegrift/aws-c-event-stream | > | > to allow partial progress, and a 'base camp' from which we can continue? | > (You have quite the load there too...) Maybe we can then build the AWS SDK | > (or parts thereof) we need on top? | | The cloud team met this week and we discussed this. We're happy to do | this, but there's one caveat: as far as we know, upstream won't provide | long term supported releases for this stack. They work in the | "everyone runs the newest" model. Probably not a big deal for | aws-c-common or aws-checksums. But aws-c-event-stream (transitively) | depends on s2n and aws-lc where security support is critical. So it's | probably not feasible to ship in a stable release.
"Fine by me" (for now). | Still, it'd be useful to provide packages so folks can start to | experiment - hopefully things will eventually settle down. Exactly. Testing support on a rolling basis is great. | I'll start making sure these are ready to go, and I'll ping you when | they're ready. Would you mind uploading or sponsoring the initial | round? I'm nonuploading, so I can't create new binary packages. Great. Happy to do that. Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
