Hi, tito via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> writes:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:02:45 +0200 > Boian Bonev <bbo...@ipacct.com> wrote: > >> ... >> > > > apt works for me it is just the dialog to modify, add or delete >> > > > repositories in synaptic >> > > > that doesn't work as some template is missing: >> > > > >> > > > aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a >> > > > distribution template for Devuan/chimaera >> > > > >> > > > I was wondering If we couldn't add this template to synaptic itself >> > > > or to software-properties-gtk package. >> > > > >> > > > Ciao, >> > > > Tito >> > > > >> > > > >> > > Tito, >> > > It appears that there are no devuan-specific template files for >> > > synaptic. Attached is my first attempt (copied from Debian template, >> > > and modified, but I probably got some things wrong). These two files go >> > > in /usr/share/python-apt/templates >> > > Hope this helps somewhat. >> > > >> > > Temp >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > thanks for your effort, I was not able to find where this templates were >> > hidden. >> > Seems to work here, software-properties-gtk dialog window opens without >> > exception. Could this somehow be added to debian or devuan? >> >> The templates live in python-apt-common (this package is not forked in >> Devuan). >> >> There are two options: >> >> 1) Submit a PR to the packager/team in Debian >> 2) Fork the package for Devuan and maintain the appropriate information in it >> >> My opinion is that 1) is not a good option, because the mirror list is >> volatile >> information and that would require stable updates on a regular basis (and >> that >> won't easily happen in Debian) > > Hi, > a stupid question, could the templates be added to the base-files package > that is already forked? Forking yet another package will add to the load but I don't think that adding the templates to base-files is a good idea. It hides their origin and quite likely leads to not noticing upstream changes. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
