Control: owner -1 Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:17:36 +0000 Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, 2019-10-27 at 19:49 -0600, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: > > On 25/10/2019 14:31, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > Any update on dbus-broker? If you are looking for a sponsor, I am > > > willing to help. > > > > Hello Luca, > > > > my work on dbus-broker stalled a while ago. The package is functional > > but there was consensus that adding it to the archive required major > > restructuring of how systemd user instance services are activated, > > requiring patches for init-system-helpers and debhelper. > > Unfortunately > > it took me 4 months to have those patches reviewed. After that I > > didn't > > have time to dedicate to this little project. > > > > To bring dbus-broker into the archive it is at least necessary to > > update > > the package to the latest upstream release, update the package to > > make > > use of the added functionality in debhelper (dh_installsystemduser). > > That's probably not very difficult to do. > > > > In the long run, it would probably be necessary to coordinate with > > the > > dbus maintainers on the best way forward for splitting the dbus > > package > > into smaller pieces so that dbus-broker would not have to > > (transitively) > > depend on dbus-deamon. > > > > I am still interested in working on this but I don't have much free > > time > > at the moment and I prefer to work on more rewarding things. Seeing > > that > > there is some interest in seeing dbus-broker in Debian may be enough > > of > > an incentive to work again on this, but I cannot promise anything. > > > > The current status of the package is here: > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/dnn-guest/dbus-broker > > > > > > Cheers, > > Dan > > Thank you for your work on this! > > Is it supported to have the system bus handled by -broker and sessions > buses handled by -daemon? If it is, we could start with what's already > working, and only upload to ustable (blocking migration to bullseye) > with system bus support, and dependency on -daemon for the tools. And > then iterate from there. > What do you think? Hi, I have updated the package and done several changes, and unless there are objections I intend to upload to experimental/NEW in a couple of days. I'll start by grabbing the ITP. Repository: https://salsa.debian.org/bluca/dbus-broker I've also done some work on src:dbus to split out config and tools, like it's done in Fedora/RHEL and Yocto. MR on Salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/dbus/-/merge_requests/8 Thanks for starting the work on this! I'm of course very happy to work together and be both uploaders if you'd like to work on this as well going forward. Just let me know and I'll list you and add you to the shared repository once it's created. CC'ing Simon for the src:dbus bits. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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