Path: csiph.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!3.us.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Claudius Heine Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: New package for tpm2-pytss Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 11:30:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Fri Aug 26 09:26:59 2022 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.311 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, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, MURPHY_SCAM1=0.1, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.1.2 Content-Language: en-US Organization: Denx Software Engineering Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/20224 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/ed76db62-53de-78e1-47e0-99c31d3a4d41@denx.de Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 76 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: "Meier, Roger" , "Legner, Markus" X-Original-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 11:26:37 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <807e76ce-bcec-a072-bd2d-076d6ae1db06@denx.de> <77f6efbd-c2e3-13eb-e95e-034a68d0ef23@denx.de> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:14386 Hi, On 2022-08-25 17:36, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > Hi, > > Am 25.08.22 um 09:25 schrieb Claudius Heine: > >> I am not possessive about this package and would like to share >> maintainer-ship if possible. For me this is contract work, I am not >> doing this for myself, but for a customer, which will continue to use >> this and packages around it for rolling out Linux-based Desktop systems >> for their employees. So I suspect that this will be used and maintained >> in any case, even if not my me personally. > > well, if packaging work is covered any payed by the employee or > costumers than this is great as it also shows it's possible to earn > money with FOSS. > > I just wanted to stress out that it's sometimes better to not start > packaging work if it's already recognizable that were will no time > afterwards to do the maintenance work, which is mostly more work than > the initial packaging. At some point almost every software will get some > security update which needs to get incorporated into the package and the > archive. As you work for DENX I'm quite sure what I mean. :-) I CCed some folks that would possible be involved in keeping this and possible other packages maintained as well... So I guess we should then just join the python-team next right? - I want to help maintain python packages - My salsa account is: cmhe - And I read and agree to the Debian Python Team Policy [1] >> Debian already contains the tpm2-pkcs11 package, which in its newest >> version (1.8.0) (see #1011376 [1]) will require tpm2-pytss (which this >> is about). So I guess sooner or later (if tpm2-pkcs11 is still >> maintained), someone will need to create tpm2-pytss as well. >> >> tpm2-pkcs11 1.8.0 is required to fix bugs when used with openssl 3, that >> are present in older versions (1.7.0). >> >> My goal here mainly was to help and speed up the upgrade of tpm2-pkcs11 >> to 1.8.0 by supplying the tpm2-pytss package. Also of course avoiding >> low-quality and duplicate work by providing the packages to upstream >> Debian. > > ... > >> Yes, sure. I already started doing that as soon as my salsa account was >> approved: >> >> https://salsa.debian.org/cmhe/tpm2-pytss >> >> That should work already, but currently I am just adding salsa-ci >> support, and possible fixing some metadata issues. > > I've take a look and opened up a MR to address some small things I've > noted. Your work looks good so far. > > https://salsa.debian.org/cmhe/tpm2-pytss/-/merge_requests/2 > > Feel free to cherry-pick or merge in the modifications. All your changes looked great, I learned a lot from them and integrated them all. > I haven't looked yet into potential copyright things, if some other > member would have time to have also a look at this that would be great. That would be welcomed! regards, Claudius [1] https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/python-modules/blob/master/policy.rst