On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 05:40:55PM -0800, Mike Miller wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 01:36:33 -0500, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > yep i came across all of them starting from python-lzma -- do you know > > what's the status of the "RedHat infrastructure" in debian? many (if > > not all) of those tools are relatively old, not maintained (or just in > > life support mode) and most of all, python2 with no port to python3 > > available > > Yeah. I was responsible for some of these, but put them up for adoption > about a year ago. You've about captured the status, all rpm-related > packages in Debian are old, unmaintained, Python 2 only. Updating to > Python 3 ports of mock and koji need dnf, yum is abandonware. > > I've seen a couple threads about packaging dnf (likely not archived), > but so far no one has committed enough to file an ITP. > > There _is_ an ITP for createrepo-c (#912338), a C-only reimplementation, > also a koji dependency, but looks like it may have stalled.
Adding a bunch of people from Fedora, involved in reproducible builds before. And also adding Simon, who can help with some of this. A little context: Currently Fedora build tools packages in Debian are mostly unmaintained. This makes it difficult to have cross-distribution cooperation, for example Debian developers with a lot of experience in reproducible builds helping with reproducibility of Fedora packages. If I understand correctly, it is also one of the things needed to revive Fedora reproducibility testing on https://tests.reproducible-builds.org. This is about dnf, mock, koji and createrepo-c - and their dependencies (if any missing in Debian). Simon can do some packaging, but will need help with finding maintainers for them, and possibly also packaging some of the dependencies - if there are many of them missing. -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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