Bug#995670: Zig package status

[Nick Hastings]

Hi Bastian,

* Bastian Germann  [221204 09:02]:
> 
> With the copyright in place I will sponsor it. Please notify me when you
> think you have represented the applicable licenses completely and I will
> review it.

Many thanks for stepping forward for this.

I started looking at the copyright again and have some questions. I'm
not sure if the discussion should continue here in this bug report or if
it is better to take it "offline" to be just with you as the potential
sponsor.

Thanks,

Nick.

Bug#995670: Zig package status

[Bastian Germann]

Am 04.12.22 um 00:55 schrieb Nick Hastings:

Without a sponsor the package can't enter Debian so I don't want to
spend the many tedious hours required to manually produce a correct
copyright file if it will not be used. If/when there is indication that
someone may sponsor this package I can look to put more time/effort into
the d/copyright.


With the copyright in place I will sponsor it. Please notify me when you think you have represented the applicable 
licenses completely and I will review it.

Bug#995670: Zig package status

[Nick Hastings]

Hi Bastian,

* Bastian Germann  [221203 02:45]:
> The package got removed from mentors.

Yes, no one sponsored it.

> Nick, do you still have time to work on it? If not please make this a
> RFP.

I think I have time. Zig 0.10.0 was just released and I'm updating the
package for it. Hope to upload to mentors soon.

I think the biggest problem is still the copyright file. I tried using
scancode but it seems that d/copyright output option is still a work in
progress.

Without a sponsor the package can't enter Debian so I don't want to
spend the many tedious hours required to manually produce a correct
copyright file if it will not be used. If/when there is indication that
someone may sponsor this package I can look to put more time/effort into
the d/copyright.

Regards,

Nick.

Bug#995670: Zig package status

[Bastian Germann]

The package got removed from mentors.
Nick, do you still have time to work on it? If not please make this a RFP.

Bug#995670: Zig package status

[Nick Hastings]

Hi,

* Henrique Almeida  [220811 03:57]:
>  Hello, what's the current status of the Zig package for the Debian
> official repository ?

I've filed a request for a sponsor
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1012286

Other than not have a sponsor, the two main issues I see are:

1. Some of the post build tests fail.
Checking on zig issues and IRC it seems not so unusual for some tests to
fail in certain situations. I'm not sure how worthwhile it is chasing
down these issues before zig reaches 1.0.0. 

2. The copyright file.
With so much bundled source code from different projects it's quite
challenging to write a correct copyright file. I've put considerable
time into this, but it is horribly tedious and boring work. Without a
sponsor to get zig into Debian I could just be completely wasting my
time.

Cheers,

Nick.

Bug#995670: Zig package status

[Henrique Almeida]

 Hello, what's the current status of the Zig package for the Debian
official repository ?

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