[Pkg-squeak-devel] Bug#872252: Debian squeak-vm bug #862576 etoys: Doesn't get beyond Squeak security key generation

[David T. Lewis]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 08:08:57AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> Hi, and thank you for reaching out.
> 

Hi Petter,

You raised a number of questions in your reply. I do not know the answers,
but I will try to add some clarifications where I can.

> 
> One thing that would help the maintainers is to know which of the 5 patches in
> <URL: https://sources.debian.net/patches/squeak-vm/1:4.10.2.2614-4.1/ >
> are now included in the official upstream source.  Can you tell?
> 

I do not know. I am not aware of any patches originating from the Debian
team, so it is quite likely that they are not present in the upstream
sources, or that the underlying concerns may have been addressed in other
ways.

> > The current sources are easily compiled, and are known to work with
> > the Etoys image on recent Debian-based distributions. Having said
> > that, I do not know for sure, and cannot guarantee, that there will
> > not be issues on the latest Debian version. However, if problems arise
> > I am fairly confident that we will be able to resolve them through a
> > bit of email collaboration.
> 
> Is it running in valgrind without any issues reported?  Does it build
> with both the most recent gcc and clang compilers?  Those tests tend to
> weed out quite a few bugs, so I thought it best to ask early. :)

I don't know. Someone will have to try it and find out. I cannot do it.

> 
> > What we need to do:
> >
> > Replace the old source package for squeak-vm with a source snapshot based
> > on the current upstream sources at squeak-vm.org. I expect that this will
> > produce a reliable squeak-vm for both 32-bit and 64-bit distributions. We
> > will need to confirm this by running Etoys on the new VM.
> 
> Why a snapshot and not a release?
> 

Because I thought that it might help you or others to do a quick check to
confirm whether or not the compiled VM works on Debian for Etoys.

If you are able to confirm that the upstream sources work on the latest Debian,
and also that Etoys works properly with that VM, then I am sure we can arrange
an official release on the Squeak side to support the Debian efforts.

> -- 
> Happy hacking
> Petter Reinholdtsen

Thanks Petter, I hope this helps a bit.

Dave