[Toybox] Toybox in Devuan / Debian. Was: [PATCH] losetup: fix the race.

[David Seikel]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 21:55:02 -0500 Rob Landley said :
> On 8/8/19 9:00 AM, David Seikel wrote:
> > Now that you mention it Devuan has a busybox package, via Debian,
> > but no toybox package.  If we want to do something about that the
> > question becomes - do we push it into Debian, or push it into
> > Devuan?  I might be able to help with the later.  
> 
> Devuan is a fairly light reskin of debian, if it goes into one it'll
> presumably go into the other before too long.

The correct thing to do would be to push it into Debian.  Devuan
package mirrors serve the Devuan versions of those few packages that are
different for Devuan, then redirect everything else to Debians package
mirrors.  Some Devuan mirrors also mirror Debian, so they handle the
lot.  So if a new package gets added to Debian, Devuan picks it up
automatically.  Though obviously if the new package depends on systemd,
then hopefully the Devuan folks will notice and attempt to do something
about that.  That wont be a problem for toybox.

> A .deb packaging of toybox has been on my todo list for a while, if
> you want to take a stab at that I'm happy to support you however I
> can. :)

I mentioned above that I might be able to help with a Devuan package
since I'm one of the Devuan devs (I help maintain the mirror system).
So my "help" to push it into Devuan mostly would have been me waving
toybox around and asking "anyone wanna package this".

Like yourself my TODO lists runneth over.  I not only have a TODO list
that lists the other TODO lists, I've recently installed MantisBT to
help track some of them.  I'm semi retired, gotta have something to do
with my time.

I've been writing a new mirror testing script for Devuan, and one of the
plans is to make it generic, so other .deb based distros could use it
to.  Then I get to package it up and push it into Debian.  That will be
my first attempt at getting something into Debian, though I have in the
past been responsible for some .rpm packages in Yellow Dog Linux.  So
I'll add "get toybox pushed into Debian" onto my TODO, and let's see
which one of us gets around to it first.

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