[Pkg-auth-maintainers] Moving GitHub repos to git.debian.org?

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Mon Sep 25 14:23:13 UTC 2017


Thanks Dain! Luke, all, feel free to create a copy on alioth but remember to push all branches and tags from the github version. I will do the same whenever I work on any of the yubikey packages.

/Simon

> 25 sep. 2017 kl. 14:26 skrev Dain Nilsson <dain at yubico.com>:
> 
> We had a quick discussion about this and came to the following conclusions, basically mirroring what Simon already stated:
> 
> We're happy to have the existing Debian packaging repos (the ones on Github, names ending in "-dpkg") moved to git.debian.org, as long as they are maintained by Debian folks. We simply don't have the resources/expertise to maintain official Debian packages the "Debian way" ourselves, so we're very grateful for help with this. We can point to those repos from the existing ones, which we may keep around for the explicit purpose of building Ubuntu packages for our PPA.
> 
> -- 
> Dain Nilsson
> Engineering Lead | Yubico
> 
>> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:
>> Welcome Luke!  We really appreciate help with the YubiKey packages!
>> 
>> I know Yubico folks build Ubuntu packages from the GitHub repositories,
>> and the GitHub repositories do receive some upgrades once in a while.
>> But I don't know which projects this applies to.  I guess they find it
>> easier to work with GitHub than alitoh because they aren't Debian
>> savvy.  I don't care strongly about this, but it seems unfortunate if
>> we have one repository on alitoh that is modified and the Yubico folks
>> maintain the GitHub repositories for the same package.  Dain, Klas,
>> Dag, do you have a recommendation here?  Perhaps the focus of the
>> repositories have changed so it actually makes sense to have two (i.e.,
>> GitHub is for Yubico-maintained Ubuntu packages, alitoh is for Debian
>> community maintained Debian packages).
>> 
>> /Simon
>> 
>> tis 2017-09-19 klockan 15:46 -0700 skrev Luke W Faraone:
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> > I recently joined the team, and am particularly interested in working
>> > on
>> > maintaining Yubikey-related packages.
>> >
>> > A number of the pkg-auth packages are hosted on git.debian.org, but
>> > it
>> > seems many of the `yubikey-*` / `yubico-*` packages are on GitHub
>> > under
>> > the Yubico org.
>> >
>> > Would folks be OK with moving the canonical version of these
>> > repositories to git.debian.org? Or at the very least, syncing ACLs
>> > between GitHub and Alioth (or whatever the replacement for it is).
>> >
>> >   -- Luke Faraone
>> >
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