[Trisquel-devel] ITP: can I submit a package to trisquel

[Simon Josefsson]

Jing Luo <jing at jing.rocks> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Does trisquel accept trisquel-specific/native packages? I failed to
> find any documentation on this.
>
> I have a package called libnss-mysql, which was removed from Debian
> around 2015 because it was "unmaintained, upstream dead, low
> popularity contest score, nobody uses it". Savannah has been depending
> on libnss-mysql for about two decades; we use it for authenticating
> member vcs access. Since it was removed from Debian (and later
> Trisquel), Bob Proulx has been maintaining libnss-mysql, even though
> neither the original author nor debian developers touch it
> anymore. Very recently, Bob "official" took over/hard-forked it and
> made a new upstream release [1]. So we can say that the upstream is
> alive again.
>
> Since I am pretty sure there is no hope reintroduce libnss-mysql into
> Debian because of the lack of interest (quite a few libnss libraries
> are also unmaintained in Debian), I think it would be a good thing to
> have it packaged for Trisquel, because GNU uses/needs it. Therefore I
> would like to maintain the deb packaging of libnss-mysql, and I pushed
> a WIP tree here [2].

I am happy to sponsor an upload of this into Debian, we'll just have to
review the packaging for latest Debian standards wrt copyright/license
etc.  Indeed it was removed a long time ago:

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libnss-mysql

If you agree, could you add gitlab.trisquel.org username 'jas' to your
project and we could co-maintain it?  Please add me as Maintainer so I
can add CI/CD-style integration, it would be cool to see if using Debian
Salsa CI/CD pipeline works on gitlab.trisquel.org (although I recall
using this before).

It is very good that Bob did a new release!  That establishes a new
upstream and make things clear.

/Simon

> Which bring me to the question in the beginning: does trisquel accept
> packages? (how) can I submit a package to Trisquel? I recently adopted 
> an orphaned package in Debian, so I am somewhat familiar with how
> Debian does things.
>
> Note: there are a few more packages that may be in a similar situation
> where there is no hope to introduce them into Debian, but GNU and 
> Savannah need it. I am talking about GNU Bazzar: it was maintained by
> Canonical, but Canonical abandoned it in 2017 and made a fork called 
> breezy, and they explicitly expressed that they would not cooperate
> with GNU on maintaining Bazzar (very unsurprising for Canonical to say
> this). Since then, breezy has replaced Bazzar in Debian. From other 
> communication channels, I heard that the GNU maintainer of Bazzar now
> is willing to pick up the development of Bazzar. I dont speak for all 
> Savannah hackers, but because Savannah still supports Bazzar vcs, it
> would be a bonus point for GNU and Savannah if we can get Bazzar 
> packages into Trisquel (again). I would volunteer as the package
> (co-)maintainer when the time comes.
>
>
> [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/administration/libnss-mysql.git
> [2] https://gitlab.trisquel.org/del111/libnss-mysql
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