Comment 5 for bug 1689963

On 21.06.2017 [04:32:18 -0000], Christian Seiler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm one of the Debian Maintainers of open-isns and I just saw this bug
> here because I saw the upstream pull request for the fixes to the test
> suite. First of all: thanks for improving the package. The main reason
> I've packaged that is because it was split out of open-iscsi, and I'm
> not really a user of iSNS itself.

Of course! To be honest, neither am I, beyond knowing what the
technology is supposed to do :)

> I would like to keep any diff between Debian and Ubuntu to a minimum -

100% on board. To be clear, my next step once I get the change into
Ubuntu was an immediate submittodebian (and also why I sent it upstream
first, I'm hoping I can prod Lee to do a new release with the passing
test suite).

> ideally there'd be no diff at all. I'd also be happy to include any
> Ubuntu-specific changes in the upstream Debian package. The upstream
> test suite you've added to DEP-8 appears to be something that would also
> be useful to run in Debian. If it's OK with you I'd like to review the
> changes you made in this regard and include them in the Debian package
> itself.

Yep, absolutely! Like I said above, that was my plan as well. I see no
benefit to Ubuntu running tests that Debian doesn't :)

> Apart from that: a short comment on what you wrote in the "Quality
> Assurance" part of this report:
>
> > * No debconf questions are asked during installation.
>
> This is not entirely true: no debconf questions are asked when
> installing the library packages themselves in the current Debian

You are right, I should have made that more clear. The only binary
packages that need to be in main for this MIR are: libisns-dev
libisns-nocrypto0-udeb libisns0 as documented at
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/component-mismatches-proposed.
The open-isns daemon/server packages will continue to live in universe.

> package, but because how the software works, the discovery daemon (pkg
> :open-isns-discoveryd) and the server itself (pkg:open-isns-server) will
> indeed ask debconf questions on installation and removal. That said: if
> you have any ideas how to handle that without debconf questions, I'd be
> open to hearing that. (In Debian we're now at the beginning of the next
> release cycle, so it'd be no problem at all to change the behavior.)

I'm happy to take a look at this, though! I'll put it on my backlog to
look at this cycle :)