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Re: New package for tpm2-pytss

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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. :-)

> 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.

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.

-- 
Regards
Carsten

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New package for tpm2-pytss Claudius Heine <ch@denx.de> - 2022-08-24 15:10 +0200
  Re: New package for tpm2-pytss Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@t-online.de> - 2022-08-24 18:50 +0200
    Re: New package for tpm2-pytss Claudius Heine <ch@denx.de> - 2022-08-25 09:30 +0200
      Re: New package for tpm2-pytss Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@t-online.de> - 2022-08-25 17:40 +0200
        Re: New package for tpm2-pytss Claudius Heine <ch@denx.de> - 2022-08-26 11:30 +0200

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