On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 5:42 PM, ng0 <n...@libertad.pw> wrote: > Hi Aron, > > Aron Xu <a...@debian.org> writes: > >> 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’. > > To me it still looks like the layout and releases did not include > any of the listed above, so if I'll package openbsd-netcat with > patches in the source sometime next year. > >> 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 > > Thanks for your message on the update. So far the package on our > (my) side is stuck in the TODO phase of applying the patches as > it's not a priority for me. > > I have no idea about the Debian project organization, but > if it's not already an open bug, could you open a bug for your > infrastructure and/or openbsd-netcat about what Ludovic wrote > here: > > > > 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? > > > > This would make work on our side (and possibly also other systems > distributing your version of netcat) much easier, otherwise I'll > just pull in the patches. >
I've said before that I don't treat it as a fork, so sorry I'm not going to request that feature on Debian's infrastructure. Thanks, Aron