October 2019 - PureOS-project - Purism Mailing Lists

policy for level of stability of PureOS stable
by Jonas Smedegaard 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

How stable is PureOS stable a.k.a. amber? Which criteria for permitting new packages to get included? Which criteria for permitting existing packages to get updated? Do I just use my gut feeling? Concretely, David Seaward wants ldh-gui-suite added, but makes sense to me to address this generally, eary on. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private

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Bits from PureOS | Sharks!
by Jeremiah C. Foster 25 Oct '19

25 Oct '19

Hi, Summer is here on the East Coast of North America and that means another edition of Bits from PureOS. And no, I wasn't eaten by a shark last week on Cape Cod, but thanks for asking. To reiterate, the long-running topics we're responsible for are; 1. Reproducible builds 2. Supporting Pureboot and Purism hardware 3. Continuous delivery of PureOS 4. PureOS store (and application discovery) To that list I think we ought to add; 5. PureOS Security 6. Additional packages for PureOS We have already a security mailing list here: https://lists.puri.sm/listinfo/security We should likely develop a plan for its use. Other security topics perhaps ought to be discussed privately and I intend to kick off the topic with stakeholders. On the reproducible builds front you can follow the thread here; https://lists.puri.sm/pipermail/pureos-project/2019-July/000177.html What is happening is we're trying to adjust various time stamps that various tools insert into a given build. Those time stamps vary between builds (of course, because any two builds occur at different times). Lamby has patched many of the tools and I'm trying to find the right context to inform the tools that they're to use the standardised time stamp. Discussion with various folks has led us to cease maintaining PureBrowser. The reasons are pretty simple; we are investing in the GNOME ecosystem and GNOME web runs as a flatpak bringing in a bit of isolation to the browser which adds an additional layer of security. I think that we should make an announcement about this going forward in various places since there is often much discussion on browsers in our forums. Upcoming discussions on how to seed a build of PureOS for the L5 should be interesting, I plan to send out an invitation for discussing this in the next day or so. More info to come. Lastly, getting apps into PureOS needs to be better documented. I'm doing some packaging but am struggling with getting pbuilder to play nicely with my requests to pull in older versions of software. If we had clear instructions on how to build a PureOS image for pbuilder that would help me immensely. I'll reach out to folks regarding this since I'm certain that the knowledge needed is available. Also, uploads to Laniakea of certain packages are failing occasionally, something Guido has pointed out. We ought to speak with him to determine what the issues are and to smooth out the upload process. As always, feedback most welcome.

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Lollypop in PureOS
by Andreas Ronnquist 07 Oct '19

07 Oct '19

I have uploaded new upstream versions of Lollypop to Debian unstable (1.1.14.16-4) and also I have uploaded release candidates (1.1.9*) to Debian experimental - I believe a stable upstream release of 1.2 is not far away now. How can I get these into Pureos? I believe the version in Pureos is way back at 1.1.14.11-1 (Thats what I can find on repo.pureos.net) - development in Lollypop upstream have been really intense lately, and I have tried my best to keep Debian up to date, at least in experimental when it comes to RC releases. Also, I am not really sure on how the different releases of PureOS is handled - I believe you have a special repository for the Phone OS, and keep non-phone OS separate from that? And lastly - This kind of question - maybe you would prefer this in tracker.pureos.net? Many thanks for all your work on free software stuff of all sorts - really appreciated! best regards -- Andreas Rönnquist mailinglists(a)gusnan.se andreas(a)ronnquist.net gusnan(a)debian.org [Please don't CC me, if I mail to a mailinglist, I am subscribed to it.]

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PureOS 10 (Byzantium) is open!
by Matthias Klumpp 01 Oct '19

01 Oct '19

[ I messed up all version numbers in the previous mail, so here it is again, corrected ] Hi! As of now, PureOS 9 (Amber) is frozen, all future uploads to that suite will go to the respective "*-updates" pocket. This means that PureOS 11 (Byzantium) is now open for business! All uploads to "landing" will migrate to that suite, and so do all uploads to the "byzantium" suite. So, if you want to upload to the next PureOS development release, just put "byzantium" as suite name into your changelog file. If you want to switch to using byzantium, replace "amber" with "byzantium" in your PureOS sources.list. Please let me know if you experience any issues! Happy hacking! Matthias

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