[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] dbus-broker Debian packaging

[Daniele Nicolodi]

I just pushed the packaging here:

https://salsa.debian.org/dnn-guest/dbus-broker

Cheers,
Dan


On 03/03/2018 19:00, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
> Hello Debian dbus maintainers and dbus-broker authors,
> 
> I'm working on packaging dbus-broker for Debian [0].
> 
> In the packaging, I'm not sure in how many binary packages the project
> should be split.  I thought asking the authors and the dbus maintainers
> could be valuable.
> 
> dbus-broker provides dbus-broker-launcher and systemd unit files that
> provide configuration files compatibility with the D-Bus reference
> implementation, however dbus-broker can be useful in itself to implement
> private buses.
> 
> Should dbus-broker and the launcher (and the systemd unit files) be part
> of two separate binary packages?  Is the interface between the broker
> and the launcher stable?
> 
> Should be the system D-Bus be replaced when dbus-broker is install?
> What about the user bus?
> 
> Is the Debian Utopia team interested in team maintenance of the
> dbus-broker package?  I would also need a sponsor to upload the package.
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dan
> 
> 
> [0] Quoting https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/:
> 
> The dbus-broker project is an implementation of a message bus as
> defined by the D-Bus specification. Its aim is to provide high
> performance and reliability, while keeping compatibility to the D-Bus
> reference implementation. It is exclusively written for linux systems,
> and makes use of many modern features provided by recent linux kernel
> releases.
>