Hi Roland,
Am Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 03:37:05PM +0100 schrieb Roland Mas:
> As part of our work on Scibian, a Debian derivative focused on scientific
> computing at EDF, we're in need of working packages for apptainer. We're
> ready to put up with the work needed, or at least give it our best shot.
Sounds very good.
> We believe it makes sense to maintain them in Debian first, so in order not
> to duplicate work or step on anyone's toes, I'm sending this email to a wide
> audience; I suggest restricting your replies to the debian-go list, which we
> feel is the most appropriate for discussion.
ACK.
> singularity and apptainer have a long and complex history, with many
> packaging attempts by various persons. Our first task will be to get an idea
> of who did what, where the code lives, and probably pick a starting point
> from there. Also, if you have words of wisdom or warnings or ideas, ther by
> all means do speak up. The task is big and indimidating, and any help will
> be most welcome.
I once worked on Apptainer[1] by simply forking singularity-container[2]
which is maintained by Nilesh very bravely. I forgot exactly my
motivation - maybe when I was struck with updating singularity-container
and learned that Apptainer is the official successor.
At some point I gave up - probably due to even more Go packages as
predependencies while I do not speak Go myself (luckily the packaging is
not very complex). The repository[1] can be considered unmaintained and
I'd be super happy if someone wants to continue. I guess the first step
would be to import lastest upstream.
> Looking forward to your feedback :-)
I wish you good luck and success in bringing Apptainer into Debian.
Please feel absolutely free in removing me from Uploaders list.
> Luca Soler & Roland Mas.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/hpc-team/apptainer
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/singularity-container
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