monotone 1.2 release?

[Michael Raskin]

>Hi all.
>
>monotone is long since not available anymore on FreeBSD and on Debian, 
>I've been using locally compiled versions (which I have been seldom 
>reported in this group) for a while now and I wonder… would it make 
>sense to make a 1.2 release easier to use with modern 
>compiler/dependencies for anyone?
>
>I'm not up to the task of full maintainership (for lack of time I can 
>dedicate to the project), but doing a rare release once in a while to 
>keep stuff from rotting and at least compile I could probably do.
>
>Any interest here?

Nixpkgs has a Monotone binary based on your Botan2 version (that 
I mirrored to GitHub for easier use in Nixpkgs), with 4 patches:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/version-management/monotone/monotone-1.1-adapt-to-botan2.patch

— a fix for a bug reported by another Nixpkgs user

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/version-management/monotone/monotone-1.1-Adapt-to-changes-in-pcre-8.42.patch

— PCRE 8.42 compatibility fix by Peter Pisař

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/version-management/monotone/monotone-1.1-gcc-14.patch

— gcc 14 compatibility fix by  Sergei Trofimovich 

revert of 
https://github.com/7c6f434c/monotone-mirror/commit/5f01a3a9326a8dbdae7fc911b208b7c319e5f456.patch

— revert of a Clang compatibility hack now that we use a much fresher Clang

I will happily and gratefully update to official-1.2 (presumably based 
on your Botan2 work) in Nixpkgs! (Dropping some of the above patches in 
the process as feasible)

(Shameless plug, I have Monotone installed on fully Nixpkgs based 
systems, but also via Nix-on-Debian on some other systems)

— 7c6f434c (Michael Raskin),
as Nixpkgs committer and Monotone package maintainer in Nixpkgs


>Would it make sense for a real "release"?
>Would we have any objections?
>
>Also: I guess the user-base is small enough that mostly everybody is 
>capable of building their own binary by themselves anyways, but it would 
>be nice to have "easier" binaries in repos anyways. Or at the very 
>least, I'd like to do that in FreeBSD (and Arch AUR).
>(I'm not so sure about Debian, me not being a user myself)
>
>(The changelog would in be very clear that it is a purely maintenance 
>release and not to expect new features or big changes anytime soon.)
>
>cheers,
>Lapo
>
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