Dear friends,
Together with a bunch of people during debcamp, we decided to package homeassistant. This is a huge task, with hundreds of
dependencies. Since there's too many, we've been told to no Cc: debian-devel@l.d.o when filing the ITPs, and instead write a summary
(as per developper's ref).
Well, we wont write such a summary, but everyone can follow our
progress on this wiki page, which fills the same purpose:
https://wiki.debian.org/Python/HomeAssistant
As you may see, there are 600+ packages to do. Since we're a lot of
people on the task, we believe it can be done.
I've written 13 packages myself, and uploaded most already. Edward
Betts beated me by a very much higher numbers! billchenchina1 and
omnidapps already wrote many packages waiting in the NEW queue too.
Together with a bunch of people during debcamp, we decided to package homeassistant. This is a huge task, with hundreds of dependencies.
Since
there's too many, we've been told to no Cc: debian-devel@l.d.o when
filing the ITPs, and instead write a summary (as per developper's
ref).
On 17302 March 1977, Thomas Goirand wrote:
Together with a bunch of people during debcamp, we decided to
package homeassistant. This is a huge task, with hundreds of
dependencies. Since there's too many, we've been told to no Cc: >>debian-devel@l.d.o when filing the ITPs, and instead write a summary
(as per developper's ref).
Not going to stop you - I actually think it would be a nice thing to
have something like this packaged for real - but how realistic is this
in a Debian stable release (assuming you ever manage to get all of it >packaged and uploaded).
Using HA myself, that thing and all around it is changing faster than >anything else I ever saw. One basically finished updating ones install
and it goes again "Update available".
Combined with upstreams focus on their HassOS thing (and yes, that *is*
damn easy and low-effort to use!), is upstream support for "oh gosh you >outdated distro" even there, in case this ends up in a stable release?
I sure would like if it ever goes with an "apt install homeassistant"
and you have what "put this HASSOS image into a VM/raspy and automate
away" does now, thats a cool target. But you found yourself a hill even >larger than the OpenStack one - and one that changes even more often and >faster. :)
--
bye, Joerg
Using HA myself, that thing and all around it is changing faster thanThat's part of my motivation for having HA in Debian: I hate that it
anything else I ever saw. One basically finished updating ones
install
and it goes again "Update available".
wants to update too fast: faster than I can cope with, demanding too
much of my time. I do not really care having the latest shiny last
thing, I want something that works, that is reliable, and that I don't
have to maintain too much.
Also, what really is there in the updates? Maybe one doesn't care
about
them 99% of the time. That driver foo for the device bar that you
don't
even use, do we really need to update it? I hope the core of Home
Assistant itself doesn't move *THAT* fast. It's hard to tell without inspecting all pieces of the puzzle.
[...]Combined with upstreams focus on their HassOS thing (and yes, that
*is*
damn easy and low-effort to use!)
This is clearly what I would like to stop doing. I currently have to,
because a few times, the automated upgrades of Home Assistant broke
badly on me. I'm sure it's going to happen again: it also happened to
some of my friends.
Also, for OpenStack, I've been mostly alone. We're currently 5
enthusiastic DDs in the Home Assistant team. It's possible even more
will join us. I don't think I'm even going to be the main driver
behind
this packaging, Edward seems very motivated, and he's done a lot
already.
Anyways, that's the beginning of an adventure. Where this will lead
us,
I'm not sure yet... For sure, looking at how, and even more
importantly
what things get updated by upstream will be interesting, and this will
tell us if it's possible to have this in Debian Stable. Maybe the only solution will be having most drivers in Debian Stable (the huge list
of
680+ python modules we're packaging), and have HA only in a
non-official
backport repo. IMO this would already be a great achievement.
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