Re: netcat-openbsd implementations

[Aron Xu <aron@debian.org>]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 5:42 PM, ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw> wrote:
> Hi Aron,
>
> Aron Xu <aron@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is> 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’s not an option then yes, you can do as you proposed, ng0.
>>>
>>> Ludo’.
>
> To me it still looks like the layout and releases did not include
> any of the listed above, so if I'll package openbsd-netcat with
> patches in the source sometime next year.
>
>> We've updated netcat-openbsd package to 1.130 with all patches
>> refreshed, if you have plan to follow the update then it's the time,
>> :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Aron
>
> Thanks for your message on the update. So far the package on our
> (my) side is stuck in the TODO phase of applying the patches as
> it's not a priority for me.
>
> I have no idea about the Debian project organization, but
> if it's not already an open bug, could you open a bug for your
> infrastructure and/or openbsd-netcat about what Ludovic wrote
> here:
>
>
>
>    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?
>
>
>
> This would make work on our side (and possibly also other systems
> distributing your version of netcat) much easier, otherwise I'll
> just pull in the patches.
>

I've said before that I don't treat it as a fork, so sorry I'm not
going to request that feature on Debian's infrastructure.

Thanks,
Aron