[Trisquel-devel] Patches for the etiona branch on package-helpers

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

Hi,

The documentation that can be found on Trisquel's website states that
we have to use gitlab to send patches, and since I don't have an
account there and that there is no way to create one, I was told on
IRC to wait for the next Trisquel dev meeting on Friday 26 November
and ask an account there. Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend that
meeting.

I then went to the next meeting and someone there told me that pers
didn't have the access to create me an account, but that I could
send the patches to this mailing list instead.

I hope that sending patches in this mailing list is fine.

The "Fix proguard runtime with java pointing to Java 8" is a patch
that we need for building Replicant 6.0 with Trisquel 9.

Before that we could only build Replicant 6.0 with Debian, and Debian
is not an FSDG compliant distribution. I already managed to build
images for several of the devices Replicant supports but I didn't test
them yet on real hardware yet. For 3 devices we still need to fix the
build.

Note that that patch is important but not very urgent to get in as I
already released modified proguard packages[1] in the meantime.
The released packages could also help with testing for people that
want or need to test that patch.

Beside that I've some small documentation fixes and also a fix for
fai-server that looks important because if users install that package
they end up with an ubuntu /etc/apt/sources.list.

References:
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[1]https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/replicant/build-tools/proguard/26-08-2021/

Denis.