Re: netcat-openbsd implementations

[ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw>]

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.

Thanks,
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