BIRD 2.0.8

[Kees Meijs | Nefos]

Hi Jakub,

Nice, good job!

Trying to prevent needless double work: are you in contact with Ondřej 
and Benjamin, or maybe others?

And... how does your fork relate to 
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/bird2/ and other forks? I found other 
BIRD2 forks on Salsa, which surprises me a little.

Lastly I still think it's a good idea to figure out if we could get 
BIRD2 in Backports (or maybe Fasttrack?).

Regards,
Kees

On 09-04-2021 04:55, Jakub Ružička wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I bring good news!
>
> I've been recently tasked with updating Debian and Ubuntu bird packages
> and I'm probably going to maintain all bird packaging (including Debian
> downstream) from now on as I do with Knot DNS and Knot Resolver packages
> which were also previously maintained by Ondra Surý the current official
> Debian bird package Maintainer. He agreed to pass the maintenance of
> bird and bird2 Debian packages to me as well. Please note that I'm a
> fresh Debian Maintainer, not a Debian Developer (yet?) so my powers are
> slightly limited but I've been able to solve all Debian packaging tasks
> so far with the kind help of my awesome sponsor and mentors and I intend
> to do the same for bird.
>
> Debian unstable is in hard freeze and bird2 Debian package doesn't have
> autopkgtests which means it can't be updated until Debian 11 Bullseye is
> released.
>
> I've prepared bird2-2.0.8 on my Salsa fork and I also enabled Salsa CI
> which is green (some harmless blhc warnings and reproducible build are
> skipped):
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/jruzicka/bird2
>
> I'll make sure these changes will make it to Debian (and Ubuntu by
> transition) eventually.
>
>
> Regarding upstream packages, I initially intended to update the bird
> launchpad you mentioned, but after a careful consideration I chose to
> leverage openSUSE Build Service (OBS) instead to provide wider platform
> support than just Ubuntu.
>
> OBS is already used in Knot Resolver and Knot DNS projects for packaging
> and CI and while it has its share of problems, it currently provides
> best value for building upstream packages on many different distros and
> archs from shared packaging source.
>
> I already have bird2 packages built in a testing OBS repo for latest
> Debian, Ubuntu, Fedoras, and CentOS but there are some remaining issues
> with docs generation on older distro versions which I need to address.
> In worst case scenario I will temporarily drop doc packages in order to
> get bird built.
>
> I plan to announce the new OBS repos sometimes next week to provide
> Debian, Ubuntu, and hopefully SUSE packages as opposed to Ubuntu only
> through Launchpad.
>
> However, after seeing your interest in the Launchpad repo, I'll see if I
> can get it updated as well to make the transition smoother.
>
>
> I have bright plans for both upstream and downstream bird packaging but
> I'll share the them only after I'm done with bird-2.0.8 packages you've
> been waiting for.
>
>
> Thank you for your patience!
>
>
> Jakub Ružička
> CZ.NIC packager 📦