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Message-ID: <20200621223233.GA17850@pi3.com.pl>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:32:33 +0200
From: Adam Zabrocki <pi3@....com.pl>
To: lkrg-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Debian packaging
Hi,
In fact, Mariusz suppose to be that person (LKRG maintainer for Debian and he
agreed for doing back-port fixes). However, Debian folks never come back to us
when Patrick propose that. You can see mailthread about that here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=944476
Maybe this can be somehow refreshed.
Thanks,
Adam
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 06:56:58PM +0000, Patrick Schleizer wrote:
> Solar Designer:
> > Do you want to possibly maintain a Debian package of LKRG for others?
> > Maybe maintain a debian/ subdirectory in our upstream LKRG tree?
>
>
> May I suggest comparing your /debian subdirectory with the one that I
> created?
>
> https://github.com/Whonix/lkrg/tree/master/debian
>
> ...the packaging is pretty stable and well tested by now. Some other
> goodies such as working well with VirtualBox, tirdad, other modules,
> systemd, Debian lintian --pedantic warning free, no hacks as far as I know.
>
> copyright / license: same as upstream.
>
> (I.e. I don't claim copyright for /debian subdirectory. Consider
> copyright of /debian subdirectory assigned to Adam. That is for
> simplicity. Also my contribution / lines of code is tiny to the giant
> efforts by upstream.)
>
> Would honor me if added to upstream LKRG.
>
> > There's currently a Debian package in Whonix, but there's no intent to
> > bring that into Debian proper.
>
>
> Available for installation on Debian too, but not packages.debian.org
> indeed.
>
> > As discussed with Patrick of Whonix, an issue with that is that
> > there won't be a way to update to new upstream versions in stable Debian
> > branches, so any LKRG bugs would either end up staying intact there or
> > would need back-ports of fixes for, which someone would need to work on.
>
>
> Once in Debian stable (or when testing is "frozen") Debian wants
> security fixes only.
>
> Which non-security bug fixes go into Debian stable isn't trivial to
> explain. I don't try. While I can't find any cannonball (on website)
> statement, there is this mailing list discussion:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/06/msg00311.html
>
> Cheers,
> Patrick
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