Hello! On Wed, 2021-04-14 at 23:09 +0100, Wookey wrote: > On 2021-04-14 18:39 +0000, Marius Gripsgard wrote: > > > I would really like to avoid a fork, it's not worth doing dual > > work. Did you ping ofono devs at irc? Also have you sent upstream > > patches? If a fork is the way you want to go, you will need to > > rename it as the existing packages need to follow upstream, we > > can't > > just rip an existing packages away from upstream. > > Debian can package mmsd with whatever set of patches it sees fit. If > the end result is ChrisT's version, with Modem Manager support, then > I > think that's reasonable. mmsd is not currently packaged in debian so > I > don't think a rename is required. Ultimately it's up to maintainers > to > choose which upstream is most appropriate. There used to be only one, > but increasingly one gets a choice of varying degrees of active > maintenance. (This can be a huge pain making life quite awkward for > maintainers, and I find Debian is the only org trying to unify a > diverse set of versions where a load of people have scratched their > own itch and then just left it like that.) >
At this point, fork of mmsd should still work with ofono. I have not disturbed anything ofono related, and have made several improvements to the core that should benefit ofono too. I would in addition welcome someone from ofono to work with me! I would rather mmsd work with both stacks (as we all benefit from that). The Mobian and PostmarketOS developers have welcomed me, and I am happy to work with you all too. I joined the UBports matrix channel and introduced myself (in addition to asking how you all contact the ofono folks), you are free to reach out to me. > Ultimately we want the best functionality for our users, and if the > old upstream has been inactive for years then using this new, > maintained version of mmsd may well be the best course. Efforts > should > continue to either give Chris access to the original repo or > officially declare it 'under new management' so that there is a > canonical place for the codebase, but in the meantime it's OK for > debian to have a big patch. > I admittedly do not know who to contact for repo access? I asked on the Kernelnewbies IRC/Mailing list (as I am a bit of a kernel newbie), but I did not hear anything back. I am not trying to start a fork because I want to, and if you look at Ofono's ML history, you can see that I have tried a lot to work with upstream. I am starting a fork because I feel this is the only way I can really move forward in getting MMS working. Without MMS, unfortunately the Pinephone I have is little more than a toy with me, and I put a lot of work into getting MMS working on the Modem Manager stack. > Versioning could be tricky in some situations, but SFACT the ofono > mmsd is just 0.0 so the debian version can be 0.0.something and > remain > compatible with a shift back to that repo at some point. > > Wookey Thank you! Respectfully, Chris Talbot
