[mosh-devel] Mosh fixes

[Christine Spang]

Done.

http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/mosh_0.96a-1.html

Oh, the Homepage: (mosh.mit.edu) gives me a Forbidden error. What is
supposed to be there? (At least a redirect to the GitHub page or
something would be better.)

Christine

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 03:11:03AM -0500, Keith Winstein wrote:
> Hi Christine,
> 
> Here is a mosh package for your review: http://mosh-debian.xvm.mit.edu/mosh/
> 
> It builds with pbuilder on Debian unstable.
> 
> Please let me know if there are any problems or, if not, please upload
> to Debian!
> 
> It should work (modulo not having Kerberos tickets or AFS tokens after
> login) against the mosh-server on Athena, with:
> 
> $ mosh linux.mit.edu --server='athrun mosh_project mosh-server'
> 
> Best, and thank you,
> Keith
> 
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Keith Winstein <keithw at mit.edu> wrote:
> > Thanks Christine.
> >
> > If the lambdas are this big of an obstacle, I guess I will just
> > rewrite them in less adventurous C++. It's not worth the hassle and
> > there's only like 10 of them anyway.
> >
> > Once I get that done and the man pages (which should be a couple
> > days), I will ping you again about uploading to Debian.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Keith
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Christine Spang <christine at spang.cc> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 03:44:54AM -0500, Keith Winstein wrote:
> >>> Christine, I think I am getting close to where this is ready to go
> >>> into Debian, with your help. Can you please advise on the best
> >>> workflow?
> >>>
> >>> Right now I have Launchpad building a PPA for Ubuntu and grabbing
> >>> automatically from Github, which has all the packaging.
> >>> (https://github.com/keithw/mosh or
> >>> http://ppa.launchpad.net/keithw/mosh/ubuntu/). The repo has a
> >>> ./build-package.sh that builds an Ubuntu package. What's the best way
> >>> to proceed while the software is still in flux?
> >>
> >> You'll need to add a changelog entry for Debian when building a package
> >> for Debian. It's the same as for Ubuntu except you'll use the
> >> distribution name 'unstable', and no -ubuntu in the version string.
> >> Other than that the build script works just fine.
> >>
> >> Once the package is in Debian unstable, it will automatically be synced
> >> into Ubuntu universe as long as it's not after the Debian import freeze
> >> of Ubuntu's release cycle (I believe it is currently after this deadline
> >> for Precise).
> >>
> >> I don't know what best practices are for sharing a changelog between
> >> Debian and Ubuntu. After mosh is in Debian, though, you could use Debian
> >> as the single point of upload. You would prepare the package as usual,
> >> and ping me or some other Debian developer to sign and upload the
> >> package when it's ready. (Ideally you should be testing the build on a
> >> Debian unstable chroot beforehand.) After doing this a few times, you
> >> could get your key added to the Debian maintainer keyring for mosh and
> >> be able to make the upload directly.
> >>
> >> I think it is fine to upload the package to Debian unstable while it's
> >> "still in flux" if it's stable enough to be usable and if having it
> >> available in the archive gets you testers. We can always file an RC bug
> >> against it to prevent it from migrating to testing until it's ready to
> >> end up in a stable Debian release.
> >>
> >> On another note, I spent some time trying to backport mosh to squeeze so
> >> I could test the packages using my laptop to log in to my server, and
> >> it turns out that GCC 4.4, which is squeeze's GCC, doesn't support
> >> lambda. :(
> >>
> >> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/cxx0x_status.html
> >>
> >> The mosh codebase uses this in a few places, e.g.:
> >>
> >> git grep "\\[&\\]"
> >>
> >> If we want to support squeeze and similarly aged distros (even including
> >> RHEL 6), we'll need to work around this. Otherwise it will be probably
> >> about a year until Debian stable can run mosh, probably more for RHEL.
> >> Which seems like a pretty big barrier to adoption.
> >>
> >> Christine