Re: Is monotone dead, or is there a path forward?

[Hendrik Boom]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 05:51:38PM +0200, Michael Raskin wrote:
> >Is anything being done about this?
> >Is the current botan so incompatible that it's hopeless to adapt?
> >
> >Or is monotone development and maintenance truly dead and I need to 
> >abandon ship and take what data I ca with me?
> 
> 1. You can easily check out a branch that actually works with botan2.
> I package it for Nixpkgs and it seems to work just fine. Unfortunately
> from bootstrapping point of view, you need some monotone to check out
> botan2-compatible monotone (for packaging I exported the branch to 
> GitHub)

Very interesting.  So it looks like making a proper devuan package for 
monotone would require taking the old source deb, replacing the code 
with your code, and updating the various dependencies in the old 
manifest to new ones.

Even without understanding much about debian packaging, that sounds 
feasible.

Where do I find the relevant monotone repositories.  (I very much want 
to preserve history while doing this.)

Do the repositories also contain the code normally used to create deb 
packages?  I am no very familiar with the existing monotone code 
infrastructure, nor with the processes required to submit an update to a 
dropped Debian package.

And what kind of test procedures are there for vetting a monotone 
release?

> 
> 2. I would also appreciate an official release including these changes.

So would I.  I might have some time to work on it once I have the 
required data and permissions.

(And it would help if I got monotone to work through my modem's port 
rerouting, but that's another thread on this mailing list)

-- hendrik