Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Nick Morrott Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Orphaning mu-editor, firmware-microbit-micropython, and their (build)-deps Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:40:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Fri Apr 19 22:34:48 2024 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.199 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5.5 X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0Yymx8GViYfDJe0El9Fv3I9rH8lImOVGeUIjYU4oRoqDQ887XBZk 6uG+bLnbyK7qWDZoaRlHAC0PydZxKh4IdCNReRUSaI0QYnwKrjTqrmlO0TVIE2uYxlZI8b7BsFv wnzDC1qKW+GXpHTL3WZcNanB0Nh63nQ== X-Google-SMTP-Source: AGHT+IHDJJNp22fuJD/sDoKRqupLrrd1UvEK6qvfZg+aC6rI5d6pndImuRTAOl4CYburnmT0NiC7fMnMi8E1Y+mxDAA= X-Received: by 2002:a05:690c:4483:b0:61a:d21f:a131 with SMTP id gr3-20020a05690c448300b0061ad21fa131mr3829591ywb.37.1713566064447; Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:34:24 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/21797 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/CAOQWjw0uOctPOyqVkqp0nhUw0BURThLoaRhfoG8Y-f5zYJ0nqA@mail.gmail.com Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 31 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner , Keith Packard X-Original-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:33:58 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <00bbcfe2-53ba-4fad-88b6-c195d632e985@at.or.at> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:15772 On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 at 16:34, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > Hey Nick, > > Thanks for maintaining mu-editor, my kids are just getting started with it. So > I might be interested in taking it over. Are the updates a lot of work? I see > the tarball is tagged with dfsg so there's that... Dear Hans-Christoph, Thank you for your interest. It's great to hear that you're starting to use mu-editor with your kids - it's why I packaged it in the first place. Updating mu-editor, and firmware-microbit-micropython, can be challenging at times and other times straightforward, depending on the changes upstream have made. The initial packaging of the whole "stack" took a long time, as upstream deliver mu-editor, uflash and the micropython binary (one of the reasons why it's +dfsg) all together in the same project. I think it required 14 separate source packages to be built to finally get mu-editor and micropython for the micro:bit into Debian. Keith Packard (CC'd) is interested in contributing and co-maintaining mu-editor, and there is a current MR in the repo. The mu-editor repository has also just had a drive-by upstream bump to version 1.2.0 but nothing else so far... Thanks, Nick