From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: netcat-openbsd implementations Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:19:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87wpkrjjs0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d1n0fb1c.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <87wpkxzrlr.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52784) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMtqq-0008W7-7y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 05:19:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMtqm-00064c-2d for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 05:19:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wpkxzrlr.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> (ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is's message of "Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:10:08 +0000") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: ng0 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Aron Xu Hi, ng0 skribis: > Aron Xu writes: [...] >> I don't treat this netcat-openbsd a full fork even if it's targeting >> an older revision at the moment. Also, maintaining patches are very >> easy using the git-buildpackage[1] tools for Debian packages. >> >> [1]https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit >> >>> >>> Third option I thought of, could Debian provide a tarball of >>> the orig-source with the patches applied, so there's no need >>> to conflict with systems currently pulling one or both of the >>> currently existing tarball. >>> >> >> I think it is hardly possible to provide another tarball because >> there's no way of doing that with current Debian infrastructure. But [...] > So what do others make of this? > Ludovic, any follow-up thoughts or actions regarding our thread > on this? I think it would be more convenient to have a source repo for netcat-openbsd rather than the current setup with a set of debian/*.patch files. Perhaps alioth.debian.org could host a netcat-openbsd project containing the GNU/Linux port (with all the patches applied), from which both the Debian package and the Guix package would be built? If that=E2=80=99s not an option then yes, you can do as you proposed, ng0. Ludo=E2=80=99.