On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 22:56:26 CEST Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
Paul, you're already forwarding patches, maintaining a package, and deploying it using a not-particularly-well-known apt_repo-in-Salsa method, so I think a Debian team context would be an asset for those times when--for example--you want to take a holiday :) Also would mean that sysadmins who use downstreams like Ubuntu would also be able to benefit from your work, and this seems like it would reinvigorate Moin usage in the wild.
The moin-team group was Steve McIntyre's initiative, and publishing out of Salsa is just a workaround at present, but I agree that something more substantial is probably needed. [...]
sbuild-debian-developer-setup is the easiest way that I know to get a clean chroot:
https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/sbuild-debian-developer-setup/sbuild-d ebian-developer-setup.1.en.html
Using sbuild will also do some minor fuzzing (eg: packages must declare all needed dependencies and must only write to safe locations during the package build)
Yes, I currently use gbp as follows: gbp buildpackage --git-debian-branch=debian/master \ --git-upstream-tag='upstream/%(version)s' \ --git-builder=sbuild I overlooked that sbuild might provide tools that are usable enough for more general activities, and I might even try this out myself! Thanks once again for the suggestions! Paul