Re: Monotone 1.2 release candidate

Hello.

To the best of my knowledge, all versions there have a problem with 
Botan2 and Botan3 in terms of the way password-handling algorithms are
coded.

My current patch for Botan3 is:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/raw/master/pkgs/by-name/mo/monotone/monotone-botan-key-format.patch

Additionally, it looks like Botan3 no longer has prefix for its error
messages, thus the prefix-removal code now loses the first «meaningful»
character.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/raw/master/pkgs/by-name/mo/monotone/monotone-botan-error-reporting.patch

In the meantime, I have looked (manually) what is needed to get PCRE2
support for things Monotone actually uses, my patch is

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/raw/master/pkgs/by-name/mo/monotone/monotone-pcre2.patch

I think that your Botan2/Botan3 branches never passed all the testsuite?
I have some patches to the tests to handle the different failure report
mode with new Botan, PCRE2 now allowing longer group names etc., see the 
remaining patches in 

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/by-name/mo/monotone

I would be interested to get some feedback so that I could improve the 
patches for integration, and maybe then there could be a new release of 
Monotone, passing all the tests on Botan3/PCRE2 (Debian stable now ships
both, and previous versions are long EoL upstream, so maybe it is OK to 
target only the current versions).

Thanks for your work!
Michael Raskin

>On 2025-12-25 13:07, Michael Raskin via developer discussion for 
>monotone wrote:
>>> % mtn hea
>>> mtn: branch 'net.venge.monotone.lapo.botan2' is currently merged:
>>> 6ba7278b3d29ed139975347df6b88be344c53b67 [email protected] 2025-12-23 09:26:24
>> 
>> What is the recommended server to pull this from? (mtn/git/tarball, no
>> problem with either, hopefully the official release will have a tarball
>> for package bootstrapping)
>
>A tarball will be generated as soon as we finalize the release, yes.
>
>Right now you can bootstrap from github:
>
>https://github.com/lapo-luchini/monotone/tree/lapo.botan2
>
>Or if you have a working mtn already you can:
>(you probably know most of this, but just for completeness sake…)
>
>$ mtn -d mtn db init
>$ mtn -d mtn sy 'mtn://monotone.ca/monotone?net.venge.monotone{,.*}'
>$ mtn -d mtn co -b net.venge.monotone.lapo.botan2 monotone-1.2dev
>
>And then in either case build with:
>
>$ cd monotone-1.2dev
>$ autoreconf
>$ ./configure
>$ make -j8
>
>-- 
>Lapo Luchini
>[email protected]