[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] RFH: ostree -- content-addressed filesystem for operating system binaries

[Dylan Aïssi]

Hi Simon,

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 20:38:13 +0000 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> I request assistance with maintaining the ostree package.
> (Other Uploaders cc'd.)

I'm willing to help maintaining this package.

> src:ostree currently has one RC bug, #1098951, a test failure involving
> its interaction with GPG signature verification: updates to GPG
> have caused it to report a missing key (GPGME_SIGSUM_KEY_MISSING,
> OSTREE_GPG_ERROR_MISSING_KEY, "Can't check signature: public key not
> found") instead of an expected failure mode like "key expired". I have
> been unable to identify whether this is a GPG bug or an ostree bug, and
> would particularly welcome help with this.

Things seem to be progressing on the upstream side of gnupg. I'm going 
to closely follow the status of this regression to ensure fixes land as 
soon as possible in Debian.

> I first uploaded this package in 2016 as a dependency of Flatpak. It
> is team-maintained by the Utopia team (approximately a "freedesktop.org
> stuff" team) and has other Uploaders, but in practice I have effectively
> been maintaining it alone, which was not really my intention.

I'm already a member of the Utopia team for pipewire/wireplumber.

> Some Debian-derived operating systems like Endless OS (and
> non-Debian-derived OSs like Fedora Silverblue) make use of ostree for
> their OS binaries, but I don't use it in that mode myself and have no
> particular expertise in how that works, so it would be helpful if someone
> who *is* using it in that mode could assist.

As you know, we use ostree for Apertis image, this seems to be the 
expertise you're looking for.

Best regards,
Dylan