Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > Even though Debian is not RPM based, it's very important to have a > working Yum package in Debian, just to be able to setup all sorts of yum > based distribution in a chroot for setting-up VMs.
Indeed. > Unfortunately, it seems that the current maintainer of Yum in Debian > haven't been active for a long time, and the current package in Lenny is > simply not working. I consider that having a non-working yum package in > Debian Lenny is a grave regression. I've put the co-maintainer in Cc so he can comment on whether he wants to take over full maintainership or wants extra co-maintainers or wants to orphan the package... > With a little bit of communication, I've been able to make a working yum > package, and I could setup a CentOS on a Xen dom0 Lenny server. Please > read this: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496137 > > Having yum working means that we need the python-iniparse and > python-gpgme packages (which will both reach SID after Lenny is out, as > said the new package maintainers), as SHOULD depend on it. The Lenny > version doesn't unfortunately. Why is the python-iniparse also needed? That's not clear from the bug report. > My proposal, as it's of course too late for the first release of Lenny, > is that python-iniparse and python-gpgme, plus a patched version of Yum, > would be prepared and send in "lenny proposed updates". The thing is that: > > - I don't know what is the way to send it to proposed updates http://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates > - I'm not comfortable with python packages, and I don't think it's a > good idea that I take over the maintainership of yum in Debian, even > though I really need this package. Any volunteer out there? Waiting for an answer of the co-maintainer... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
