On 20/05/2025 15:06, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote:
If no one manifests any interest in helping with Mono maintenance, I plan to
start removing packages after the release of Trixie. Whatever happens, *nothing*
is going to be removed from Trixie, but please don’t wait until Forky is almost
there before reacting. At this point it is going to be far too late.
If I am to go further with the removal, I will open bugs against the affected
packages probably sometime around the release of Trixie.
As upstream has moved around a bit, wouldn't it make more sense for mono
to package the dotnet repository for Forky instead?
My understanding is that debian mono is sourced from the mono-project
repo [1], which is no longer maintained, but the wine-mono fork [2] has
v6 going. wine-mono is distributed with Wine, but not packaged in
debian. I know wine-hq will download mono and set it up (runtime .msi
installer), never checked if debian wine downloads it or not.
Meanwhile, Microsoft dotnet [3] is at v10-preview and v9 is fully
packaged into Ubuntu/Fedora.
For the runtime-only, maybe wine-mono could be a better upstream if you
aim to keep it minimal at v6, but for the mono-dev side, dotnet v10
could be a better upstream.
1. https://github.com/mono/mono
2. https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono
3. https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet
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Regards,
Ahmad
