On 10/01/16 05:15, Clarke Sideroad wrote:
> On 09/01/16 03:23 AM, Daniel Reurich wrote:
>>
>> On 09/01/16 21:15, Jaromil wrote:
>>> dear Clarke,
>>>
>>> thanks for the notice
>>>
>>> On Fri, 08 Jan 2016, Clarke Sideroad wrote:
>>>
>>>> It looks like the choice loss and changes creep on.
>>>> It popped up on my sid/ceres/no-systemd box today:
>>>>
>>>> kbd (2.0.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium
>>>>
>>>> The kbd init script is no longer supported. If configuration in
>>>> /etc/kbd/config and /etc/kbd/remap is unmodified there will be an
>>>> attempt to automatically clean up those files as well as the
>>>> /etc/init.d/kbd init script on upgrades, if not THEY ARE LEFT IN PLACE
>>>> and considered owned by the local admin.
>>> are you able to volunteer maintaining a fork of this package?
>>>
>>> right now we are experiencing a temporary outage on the web interface of
>>> git.devuan.org, yet it should be back up soon. Then the procedure would
>>> be to import the last valid source package into our gitlab and keep it
>>> functional in relation to other packages and scripts.
>>>
>>> I suspect that in case of kbd this won't require much future action.
>>>
>>> ciao
>>>
>> To speed this up I can get it all set up and hand it over once it builds
>> successfully.
>>
>> That's probably the fastest/most seemless way at the moment.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Daniel.
>
> I have a bunch of personal stuff happening right now, but with a bit of
> luck and some learning I might be able to do this.
> I will know later next week, I don't want to commit to something and
> then have to back out.
>
> I have cloned the kbd git from kernel.org and will give it a look over.
> I have also subscribed to the kbd list at alt.linux.org
> That should get me more of a handle on what is happening upstream and
> what kind of a commitment would be necessary.
>
> I will get back to you on this soon as I can.
>
> Clarke
In the meantime I've pulled the debian package git repo into:
https://git.devuan.org/groups/utils
I'll trace and revert the commits that remove the init script and
rebuild the package for unstable. So initially you'll have to do
nothing except declare an interest in being the maintainer for it.
Regards,
Daniel
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