u-boot-menu fork

[CounterPillow]

u-boot-menu currently assumes versioned FDT paths. Device trees are mostly kernel version independent though, and for our device tree package, we want to upgrade it independently of the kernel package, as we don't control the kernel package's release cycle.

• [ ] Do a proper fork of u-boot-menu from the salsa Debian source: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/u-boot-menu/
• [ ] Add the package building to the GitHub Actions Workflow
• [ ] Install the package in the images
• [ ] Add package to repository

We could contribute whatever we're doing back upstream so we can keep using the vanilla package.

[CounterPillow]

Turns out this isn't needed because the salsa version of u-boot-menu already allows for this.

[diederikdehaas]

\o/

[CounterPillow]

Turns out they don't quite, their ordering of fallback stuff makes it impossible to use, unless a recent MR is merged

[diederikdehaas]

Usually sending a MR should work, but I know it will not with the (specific) maintainer of the u-boot-menu package. I told you that before and I saw someone else making the same remark: FWIW, the maintainer prefers patches sent through the BTS, so I'd suggest posting it in the #1019743 thread.

FTR: afaik it is a good maintainer, he just has a problem with (things like) GitHub and GitLab/Salsa. I think because of the requirement of a web based GUI (with non-free JavaScript?), but I don't know.
But patches send through the BTS are not a problem at all.

[CounterPillow]

What a pain

[diederikdehaas]

I haven't tried it myself yet, but git send-email --to=<bugnumber>@bugs.debian.org should work? Shouldn't be too hard for you ;-)