BIRD 2.0.8

[Jakub Ružička]

Hello,

I'm happy to be both messenger and executor of good news™ :)

You can get an idea about supported OBS archs for example here:

https://build.opensuse.org/repositories/home:CZ-NIC:knot-resolver-latest/

I see x86_64, aarch64, armv7l and mips64 is indeed missing :(

We'll probably going to need to use Debian downstream for that.


Cheers,
Jakub

On 4/9/21 7:02 AM, Skyler Mäntysaari wrote:
> Hello,
>
> That's great news! :)
>
> Regarding architectures, which ones does the SUSE CI support aka OBS?
> I don't think it supports mips64, which is needed.
>
> Kind regards,
> Skyler M
>
> On 09/04/2021 5.55, 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 📦
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