Hello Debian HAM Team,

I am interested in joining and helping keep up some of the HAM Radio
software in Debian. I have been helping to maintain backports of
TrustedQSL for various Ubuntu releases for the last year:

https://launchpad.net/~penguin359/+archive/ubuntu/trustedqsl

And lately have been getting into helping more with various Debian
packages directly. I saw that a new release of TrustedQSL was published
a couple weeks ago and decided to help import it into Debian. I have
published my work on Salsa and created MR #1 with the proposed updates:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian-hamradio-team/trustedqsl/-/merge_requests/1

I realize that Merge Requests are a little awkward for managing Debian packaging workflows due to maintaining multiple branches so let me know
if there is a better procedure I should be following for this. I have
pushed updated branches for master, upstream, and pristine-tar along
with tags to my fork of the repo for review.

One little issue I did run into was that it seems the recent 2.7.2
release wasn't quite merged in correctly. It was tagged, but the
upstream branch was not updated to match or merged into the master
branch. I started by doing a fast-forward to the upstream/2.7.2 tag and
then creating a merge into master before doing any other work on the
branch. The Git tree object is identical so the resulting merge will
create an identical checkout, but it will include the appropriate
upstream commit in the history from the import of the original, pristine tarball.

Thanks for any feedback with this proposed release.

73s,
Loren M. Lang
K7IW

[email protected]
http://www.north-winds.org/


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Hello Loren,

On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 07:49:49PM -0700, Loren M. Lang wrote:

Hello Debian HAM Team,

I am interested in joining and helping keep up some of the HAM Radio
software in Debian. I have been helping to maintain backports of
TrustedQSL for various Ubuntu releases for the last year:

https://launchpad.net/~penguin359/+archive/ubuntu/trustedqsl

And lately have been getting into helping more with various Debian
packages directly. I saw that a new release of TrustedQSL was published
a couple weeks ago and decided to help import it into Debian. I have published my work on Salsa and created MR #1 with the proposed updates:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian-hamradio-team/trustedqsl/-/merge_requests/1

Thank you!

I realize that Merge Requests are a little awkward for managing Debian packaging workflows due to maintaining multiple branches so let me know
if there is a better procedure I should be following for this. I have
pushed updated branches for master, upstream, and pristine-tar along
with tags to my fork of the repo for review.

Yes, I don't know of a (good) reference workflow for new sponsored
uploads of new upstream releases. When I sponsor, I typically have
sponsorees either create a MR for only the main/master branch or
upload their source package to mentors.debian.net. Pushing all 3
branches is fine too.

One little issue I did run into was that it seems the recent 2.7.2
release wasn't quite merged in correctly. It was tagged, but the
upstream branch was not updated to match or merged into the master
branch. I started by doing a fast-forward to the upstream/2.7.2 tag and
then creating a merge into master before doing any other work on the
branch. The Git tree object is identical so the resulting merge will
create an identical checkout, but it will include the appropriate
upstream commit in the history from the import of the original, pristine tarball.

This was my mistake. My apologies for the hassle. Thank you for
addressing it.

Thanks for any feedback with this proposed release.

I will take a look in the next week and either provide feedback or
upload.

Thank you!
tony

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Hello Loren,

On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 07:49:49PM -0700, Loren M. Lang wrote:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian-hamradio-team/trustedqsl/-/merge_requests/1

Everything looks good with your MR, so it has been merged and uploaded.
I added your fork in Salsa as a separate git remote, and so I was able
to merge your upstream branch, pristine-tar branch, and upsteam/2.7.3
tag as well, and pushed all of those the Debian Hams repo on Salsa.

Thank you for your contribution!
Cheers,
tony

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Is there a chance this could be made available to Stable users through backports.debian.org? I ask in case Logbook of The World were to
require a version of TrustedQSL newer than that which is in Stable.
Some years back that happened but that was before bdo was more popular.

73, Nate

--
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true."
Web: https://www.n0nb.us
Projects: https://github.com/N0NB
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 06:34:00AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:

Is there a chance this could be made available to Stable users through backports.debian.org? I ask in case Logbook of The World were to
require a version of TrustedQSL newer than that which is in Stable.
Some years back that happened but that was before bdo was more popular.

Hi Nate,

I will prepare a stable-bpo package for 2.7.3.

Cheers,
tony

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* On 2024 24 Apr 11:14 -0500, tony mancill wrote:

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 06:34:00AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:

Is there a chance this could be made available to Stable users through backports.debian.org? I ask in case Logbook of The World were to
require a version of TrustedQSL newer than that which is in Stable.
Some years back that happened but that was before bdo was more popular.

Hi Nate,

I will prepare a stable-bpo package for 2.7.3.

Thanks, Tony.

- Nate

--
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true."
Web: https://www.n0nb.us
Projects: https://github.com/N0NB
GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819


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On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 01:14:28PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:

I will prepare a stable-bpo package for 2.7.3.

I should have mentioned that the backport will need to wait for 2.7.3 to migrate to testing, and that might take some time due to trustedqsl
being involved in multiple ongoing transitions [1]. Which means I owe
the Release Managers an apology... I should have noticed that and
uploaded 2.7.3 to experimental.

In any event, it may take a while.

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/trustedqsl

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On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 01:14:28PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:

* On 2024 24 Apr 11:14 -0500, tony mancill wrote:

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 06:34:00AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:

Is there a chance this could be made available to Stable users through backports.debian.org? I ask in case Logbook of The World were to
require a version of TrustedQSL newer than that which is in Stable.
Some years back that happened but that was before bdo was more popular.

Hi Nate,

I will prepare a stable-bpo package for 2.7.3.

Thanks, Tony.

Yes, I was actually planning on helping get this into backports as well (assuming Tony doesn't beat me) as that is basically what I am already
doing with the Ubuntu PPAs, though Debian backports is a bit more of a
formal procedure in comparison. And yes, as Tony mentioned, it looks
like we'll need to wait for things to cool down a bit and have
TrustedQSL get into testing before we can go forward and publish
anything for backports.

I originally got into doing this for Ubuntu after spending some time
helping some users on the ARRL LoTW mailing list hand compile TrustedQSL
for their Ubuntu boxes and decided I should just start backporting the
latest Debian Sid release to the various current Ubuntu releases. Since
Tony's been good about keeping it up-to-date, I just have the easy task
of adjusting a few build-deps as needed for older Ubuntu releases and
the occasional patch for compatibility.

In any case, I decided to preemptively create a backport commit and
discover what it takes. It looks like this package is simple to backport
as it currently compiles cleanly on stable. All I had to do was create
the appropriate changelog entry. I've tested it on Bookworm and it seems
to be functioning properly. If you are interested in taking a look, I
updated the backports branch on my fork here:

https://salsa.debian.org/penguin359/trustedqsl/-/commits/debian/bookworm-backports

73s,
Loren
K7IW

- Nate

--
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possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true."
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Projects: https://github.com/N0NB
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--
Loren M. Lang
[email protected]
http://www.north-winds.org/


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On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 03:58:22AM -0700, Loren M. Lang wrote:

* On 2024 24 Apr 11:14 -0500, tony mancill wrote:

I will prepare a stable-bpo package for 2.7.3.

Uploaded and accepted into bpo.

In any case, I decided to preemptively create a backport commit and
discover what it takes. It looks like this package is simple to backport
as it currently compiles cleanly on stable. All I had to do was create
the appropriate changelog entry. I've tested it on Bookworm and it seems
to be functioning properly. If you are interested in taking a look, I
updated the backports branch on my fork here:

https://salsa.debian.org/penguin359/trustedqsl/-/commits/debian/bookworm-backports

Hi Loren,

The commit in your fork looks fine. When I saw the migration of 2.7.3
to testing, I used "dch --bpo" to quickly create the bookworm-backports changelog, but I could (and should) have simply merged your change.
Thank you for your efforts here. I will coordinate better for future
updates.

Thank you,
tony

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