Hi there, On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hi, > > ng0 <n...@we.make.ritual.n0.is> skribis: > >> Aron Xu writes: > > [...] > >>> I don't treat this netcat-openbsd a full fork even if it's targeting >>> an older revision at the moment. Also, maintaining patches are very >>> easy using the git-buildpackage[1] tools for Debian packages. >>> >>> [1]https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit >>> >>>> >>>> Third option I thought of, could Debian provide a tarball of >>>> the orig-source with the patches applied, so there's no need >>>> to conflict with systems currently pulling one or both of the >>>> currently existing tarball. >>>> >>> >>> I think it is hardly possible to provide another tarball because >>> there's no way of doing that with current Debian infrastructure. But > > [...] > >> So what do others make of this? >> Ludovic, any follow-up thoughts or actions regarding our thread >> on this? > > I think it would be more convenient to have a source repo for > netcat-openbsd rather than the current setup with a set of > debian/*.patch files. > > Perhaps alioth.debian.org could host a netcat-openbsd project containing > the GNU/Linux port (with all the patches applied), from which both the > Debian package and the Guix package would be built? > > If that’s not an option then yes, you can do as you proposed, ng0. > > Ludo’.
We've updated netcat-openbsd package to 1.130 with all patches refreshed, if you have plan to follow the update then it's the time, :) Cheers, Aron
