On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 06:02:02PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: > Hi all. > > monotone is long since not available anymore on FreeBSD and on Debian, I've > been using locally compiled versions (which I have been seldom reported in > this group) for a while now and I wonder… would it make sense to make a 1.2 > release easier to use with modern compiler/dependencies for anyone?
Yes, yes, it's been needed for years aready! > > I'm not up to the task of full maintainership (for lack of time I can > dedicate to the project), but doing a rare release once in a while to keep > stuff from rotting and at least compile I could probably do. > > Any interest here? I tried to start something along these lines a while ago, maybe a few years ago, but got nowhere. I did learn (on this mailing list) that there were a number of changes to the source code that should be merged in, but could learn nothing about what they were, > > Would it make sense for a real "release"? Yes. It should use current botan. I understand that botan-incompatibility is the reason the old version has been dropped from Debian. I understand there is already source code for that. And it should include the other improvements, whatever they are. > Would we have any objections? > > Also: I guess the user-base is small enough that mostly everybody is capable > of building their own binary by themselves anyways, but it would be nice to > have "easier" binaries in repos anyways. Or at the very least, I'd like to > do that in FreeBSD (and Arch AUR). > (I'm not so sure about Debian, me not being a user myself) I am a Devuan user. Devuan is Debian without systemd. > > (The changelog would in be very clear that it is a purely maintenance > release and not to expect new features or big changes anytime soon.) Count me in. --hendrik > > cheers, > Lapo > >
