Updating package gnome-software
Hi, I've taken a look at gnome-software yesterday, originally because the Package Synchronization Issue Overview is showing a greater difference between the version in the archive than available in Debian 3.36.0-3pureos1 vs. 3.38.1-1 https://master.pureos.net/sync/landing Next I was looking at source.p.s to start a deeper look, but there are two repositories for gnome-software! https://source.puri.sm/pureos/packages/gnome-software https://source.puri.sm/pureos/core/gnome-software But in none of both trees I can find preparations for the current version 3.36.0-3pureos1 in byzantium. The first of the two repos seems to be mostly driven by the L5 requirements in the past, the other seems to be modified only by Matthias by one commit in two different branches. To decrease confusion I'd like to drop one of both trees or at least meld them together. This requires consensus what to do or what state to archive. So I want to ask how other members see the situation and which way to take. To me updating the first listed repo seems to cost the smallest amount of time given we would only need (want?) to add the PureOS delta from the current version 3.36.0-3pureos1 in the archive. -- Regards Carsten Schoenert
Hi Carsten, On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 08:57:21AM +0100, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
Hi,
I've taken a look at gnome-software yesterday, originally because the Package Synchronization Issue Overview is showing a greater difference between the version in the archive than available in Debian
3.36.0-3pureos1 vs. 3.38.1-1
https://master.pureos.net/sync/landing
Next I was looking at source.p.s to start a deeper look, but there are two repositories for gnome-software!
https://source.puri.sm/pureos/packages/gnome-software https://source.puri.sm/pureos/core/gnome-software
But in none of both trees I can find preparations for the current version 3.36.0-3pureos1 in byzantium.
The first of the two repos seems to be mostly driven by the L5 requirements in the past, the other seems to be modified only by Matthias by one commit in two different branches.
To decrease confusion I'd like to drop one of both trees or at least meld them together. This requires consensus what to do or what state to archive. So I want to ask how other members see the situation and which way to take.
To me updating the first listed repo seems to cost the smallest amount of time given we would only need (want?) to add the PureOS delta from the current version 3.36.0-3pureos1 in the archive.
To add more repos to the above (but it can also make things simpler): The Librem 5 uses PureOS store: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/pureos-store which is a more recent, slightly rebranded gnome-software. This - means that you don't need to worry about the phones when updating gnome-software - it might be be an option for the Laptops to switch to PureOS store as well to be consistent - dropping the downstream fork of gnome-software. Hope this helps? -- Guido
Hi Carsten! Am Mi., 8. Dez. 2021 um 08:57 Uhr schrieb Carsten Schoenert <carsten.schoenert@puri.sm>:
Hi,
I've taken a look at gnome-software yesterday, originally because the Package Synchronization Issue Overview is showing a greater difference between the version in the archive than available in Debian
3.36.0-3pureos1 vs. 3.38.1-1
https://master.pureos.net/sync/landing
Next I was looking at source.p.s to start a deeper look, but there are two repositories for gnome-software!
https://source.puri.sm/pureos/packages/gnome-software https://source.puri.sm/pureos/core/gnome-software
How fun! The "core" one is the original ne, I have no idea about what the second one adds...
But in none of both trees I can find preparations for the current version 3.36.0-3pureos1 in byzantium.
The first of the two repos seems to be mostly driven by the L5 requirements in the past, the other seems to be modified only by Matthias by one commit in two different branches.
To decrease confusion I'd like to drop one of both trees or at least meld them together. This requires consensus what to do or what state to archive. So I want to ask how other members see the situation and which way to take.
To me updating the first listed repo seems to cost the smallest amount of time given we would only need (want?) to add the PureOS delta from the current version 3.36.0-3pureos1 in the archive.
So, AFAIR the changes we needed for gnome-software for PureOS (primarily some config adjustments) are actually upstream in Debian. But since PureOS does binary syncs from Debian packages, and these changes are applied at build-time if a PureOS build environment is detected, we will not get these changes in PureOS unless the package is actually rebuilt from source for PureOS. Initially I did the regular b1 rebuild upload, but that falls flat if a new version from Debian is synced over it. So the "pureos1" version of gnome-software is primarily just a rebuilt of the unchanged Debian package to pick up the modifications needed for PureOS. So, the delta between Debian and PureOS should be almost zero. I do not know about the other changes though (that looks like Librem5 stuff), but that's what I know. It may make sense to move gnome-software out of "core" - it kind of is an OS core package, but it also is a regular app, so it may just belong into the generic packages group (the split originally existed when we thought we would have lots of community contributors ^^). So, I don't really have objections to merging things. Does that make sense to you? Cheers, Matthias -- I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/
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Matthias Klumpp