Hi Holger, hi Mihai, Am Freitag, 29. Mai 2020 schrieb Holger Levsen: > hi Mihai, > > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 12:17:13PM +0200, Mihai Moldovan wrote: > > Sorry for the late response. I've been busy, and, honestly, also always > > forgot > > to actually answer. > > thanks for your reply & don't worry, this happens often & to many people, me > included. > > > unman seems to be interested, if that's good enough, so there's that. > > that is good enough if not much better than that. > > > > all very very nice! It would be a pity to have this rot, but then, without > > > maintenance it will anyway eventually... > > > > Personally, I will have to "maintain" the package sets anyway, because I'm > > building a lot of Fedora/CentOS packages in an automatic fashion on Debian. > > > > This "maintenance" just means that I'll probably update stuff every half a > > year > > or year, though, essentially "whenever it breaks" (which does tend to > > happen). > [...] > > As given in the initial description, I've published source and binary > > packages > > for Debian Unstable/Sid at https://packages.x2go.org/debian-test/pool/main/ > > > > Note that the binaries are a bit old by now and would probably like a > > rebuild, > > but the source is still the one I'm also using on my package builder. > > > > Also, the packages became a bit stale version wise (after all, they are 9 > > month > > old by now) and some included patches have already been applied upstream. I > > haven't tried updating (and testing any updates) yet, though, and probably > > won't > > come to that shortly either. > > the important part is whether we'll get these packages ready and up to date > until end of 2020 *and* whether we can commit to maintain important fixes > after that. > > end of 2020 because of "key release dates" on https://release.debian.org/ > > it's ok(ish) if the stuff is outdated today, but in 6 month it really should > be current. > (and then after the release we can slack a bit again, though usually it's > less effort to always package and upload the latest version.) >
As I am involved in the same upstream project as Mihai (X2Go), I also have am interest in dnf for Debian. I can be of help with doing sponsored uploads and such. I guess, Mihai and I can stick our heads together until the end of the year and get dnf into shape. Most of the work has been done by Mihai already anyway. Greets, Mike -- Gesendet von meinem Fairphone (powered by SailfishOS)
