Bug#1141175: RFS: moraine/0.1.1-1 [ITP] -- snapshot backup over SSH/rsync and rclone

Thern AI Solutions <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:47:02 +0200
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Hello Simon,

Rainy days indeed, and this turned into a properly productive one. I 
googled around a bit about upstream, and in theory it should all be good 
now! moraine 0.2.2-1 is on mentors, built from a new upstream release, 
which turned out to be the cleanest answer to your blocking point and 
the manpage one at the same time (If my googling skills didn't fail me, 
that is):

- The metainfo license fix is an upstream change in v0.2.2, so 
appstream-metadata-license.patch is simply gone. No license change in 
the Debian diff for the DFSG team to squint at.

- The manpages moved from debian/ to man/ in the upstream tree, and 
debian/manpages now points there. Doing this also flushed out that eight 
of my other packaging recipes (AUR, Alpine, Void, FreeBSD, Gentoo, 
Homebrew, RPM, MPR) were reaching into debian/ to install the manpage - 
they all read from man/ now. Point taken about where things belong.
- debian/copyright is a single Files: * stanza.
- debian/upstream/metadata now carries Name, Contact, Documentation,  
Changelog, Security-Contact and a Screenshots entry on top of the 
repository and bug URLs.

One patch remains: drop-windows-build-dependency.patch, still marked 
Forwarded: not-needed. That one I believe is genuinely Debian-specific 
rather than something to upstream: winresource is what embeds the icon 
and version info into the Windows .exe, so removing it upstream would 
break the Windows release builds. The patch header explains this, but 
say the word if you'd rather see it handled differently. _As much as I 
would love to have moraine working on all the popular OS's, debian is my 
top priority!_

Builds cleanly with sbuild in a sid chroot, lintian is quiet.

dget -x 
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/moraine/moraine_0.2.2-1.dsc

Thanks for another round of genuinely educational review.

Regards,
Jonaz

On 7/22/26 14:54, Simon Quigley wrote:
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>
> Hello Jonaz,
>
> Thanks for the quick followup! Rainy days do indeed make for good FOSS 
> days. ;)
>
> I have reviewed the package again, and just have a few minor comments, 
> the first of which unfortunately is blocking:
> - In appstream-metadata-license.patch I see you corrected the license 
> entry. If I didn't know any better, this looks suspicious, simply 
> because you have "Forwarded" set to "not-needed" and this is a license 
> change. You are upstream, so the best way to handle this in my opinion 
> would be to make the change in an upstream commit and link to it in 
> the patch header, or make a new release entirely. I don't want to 
> confuse the Debian DFSG Team. :) (see 
> https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep3/ if you haven't already.)
> - I would recommend strengthening your upstream metadata file, there 
> are tons of options: https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep12/
> - In the copyright file, since you're upstream, you can just have one 
> stanza for your copyright instead of one for * and one for debian/*.
> - Since you're upstream, please upstream the manpage.
>
> Otherwise, this package looks much better. Let me know if you have 
> further questions, and please remove the moreinfo tag once you have 
> another iteration ready.
>
> Best regards,
> Simon Quigley
> [email protected]
>
>
> On July 22, 2026 7:19:45 AM CDT, Thern AI Solutions <[email protected]> wrote:
>
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>
>     Hello Simon, hope you're having a great summer so far! Raining
>     here in Sweden, so a perfect time to do some FOSS work :)
>
>     moraine 0.2.1-1 is now on mentors, and I owe you a small
>     confession: when I wrote last time that all five points were done,
>     they were done in my head and in my working copy, but they never
>     made it into the package sitting on mentors. You were reviewing
>     the old one. Sorry about that. This time I checked the uploaded
>     source instead of trusting my own memory. I'm still VERY new to
>     this, but loving every minute of developing this beauty!
>
>     What is actually in this upload:
>
>     - debian/changelog is a single "Initial release. (Closes:
>     #1141131)" entry.
>     - debian/copyright says "Expat" instead of "MIT".
>     - Standards-Version is 4.7.4, and Priority and Rules-Requires-Root
>     are gone.
>     - debhelper-compat is 14, plus dh-sequence-single-binary, which dh
>     asks for explicitly in compat 14.
>     - debian/watch is the version 5 deb822 format.
>
>     Your build log was the most useful part of the review, so thank
>     you for attaching it. It turned out there were two crates that are
>     not in Debian, and cargo resolves both of them even though neither
>     is ever compiled here:
>
>     - ksni, the system-tray icon. debian/rules now builds with
>     --no-default-features --features gui, so the tray is simply left
>     out. The GUI already has a #[cfg(not(feature = "tray"))] path for
>     platforms without a tray, so nothing else changes.
>     - winresource, a Windows-only build-dependency that build.rs uses
>     under #[cfg(windows)] to embed the icon into the .exe. Cargo
>     resolves target-specific dependencies for every target, not just
>     the host, so it broke the Linux build even though it is never
>     built. Removed with a quilt patch.
>
>     It now builds cleanly with sbuild in a sid chroot, and lintian is
>     quiet.
>
>     dget -x
>     https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/moraine/moraine_0.2.1-1.dsc
>
>     I am still learning this as I go, so I really do appreciate you
>     taking the time. Removing the moreinfo tag with this mail, and I
>     am around if you spot anything else.
>
>     Best regards,
>     Jonaz Thern
>
>     On 7/22/26 13:39, Simon Quigley wrote:
>>     Hello,
>>
>>     Thanks for the update here. It seems like you've addressed most
>>     of or all of the points.
>>
>>     Could you please remove the moreinfo tag once a new version is on
>>     Mentors?
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Simon
>>
>>
>>     On July 17, 2026 3:58:09 PM CDT, Thern AI Solutions
>>     <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>         Hello Simon, and thanx for contacting me. First of all, sorry
>>         for the late reply. 3 kids, 2 jobs (1 wich is my own
>>         business) and a hours takes alot of time, and Moraine is
>>         something I enjoy working on whenever I get a few hours for
>>         myself. Thank you so much for taking the time to go through
>>         this in such detail. I'm still fairly new to Debian packaging
>>         and learning something new with every round of feedback, so
>>         this is genuinely a big help to me. I've addressed all five
>>         points: 1. Changelog    Collapsed it down to a single initial
>>         entry and corrected the version to 0.2.0-1 — I hadn't
>>         realised a first upload should just be one "Initial release"
>>         entry rather than carrying the whole history. 2. Copyright /
>>         license name    Renamed the license from "MIT" to "Expat" in
>>         debian/copyright. Good learn that Expat is the correct name
>>         for this exact license text in Debian. 3. Standards-Version
>>         and control fields    Bumped Standards-Version to 4.7.4 and
>>         dropped both Rules-Requires-Root: no and Priority: optional
>>         from the source stanza. 4. debhelper compat    Upgraded to
>>         debhelper-compat 14. 5. Watch file    Upgraded to version 5.
>>         I learned along the way that v5 is a new deb822-style format
>>         rather than just a version-number bump, so I rewrote it with
>>         the Version/Source/Mode/Matching-Pattern fields (still
>>         tracking the git tags). All five are done in the packaging.
>>         I'll give it a final lintian run in a clean unstable chroot
>>         and upload the corrected 0.2.0-1 to mentors. Please let me
>>         know if there's anything else I should fix — I really
>>         appreciate the guidance. Thanks again, Jonaz On 7/14/26
>>         23:18, Simon Quigley wrote:
>>
>>             Control: tags -1 +moreinfo Hello, Thank you for your work
>>             here. A few things: - Please only keep one changelog
>>             entry, the initial one, with a corrected version. The
>>             additional changelog entries are not needed. - In the
>>             license file, it is expected to use the license name
>>             "Expat" instead of "MIT," please fix that. - Please
>>             update Standards-Version to 4.7.4, dropping
>>             Rules-Requires-Root: no and Priority: optional. - Please
>>             consider upgrading to debhelper-compat 14. - Please
>>             upgrade the watch file to version 5. I also can't get it
>>             to build, see the attached log. If this is a Rust
>>             package, you might want to include it in the
>>             debcargo-conf monorepo following their docs:
>>             https://rust-team.pages.debian.net/book/ Please remove
>>             the moreinfo tag once you're ready for another review.
>>             Feel free to CC me, if I'm available I can re-review.
>>             Best regards, Simon Quigley [email protected] 
>>
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    <p>Control: tags -1 - moreinfo<br>
      <br>
      Hello Simon,<br>
      <br>
      Rainy days indeed, and this turned into a properly productive one.
      I googled around a bit about upstream, and in theory it should all
      be good now! moraine 0.2.2-1 is on mentors, built from a new
      upstream release, which turned out to be the cleanest answer to
      your blocking point and the manpage one at the same time (If my
      googling skills didn't fail me, that is):<br>
    </p>
    <p>- The metainfo license fix is an upstream change in v0.2.2, so
      appstream-metadata-license.patch is simply gone. No license change
      in the Debian diff for the DFSG team to squint at.</p>
    <p>- The manpages moved from debian/ to man/ in the upstream tree,
      and debian/manpages now points there. Doing this also flushed out
      that eight of my other packaging recipes (AUR, Alpine, Void,
      FreeBSD, Gentoo, Homebrew, RPM, MPR) were reaching into debian/ to
      install the manpage - they all read from man/ now. Point taken
      about where things belong.<br>
      - debian/copyright is a single Files: * stanza.<br>
      - debian/upstream/metadata now carries Name, Contact,
      Documentation,  Changelog, Security-Contact and a Screenshots
      entry on top of the repository and bug URLs.<br>
      <br>
      One patch remains: drop-windows-build-dependency.patch, still
      marked Forwarded: not-needed. That one I believe is genuinely
      Debian-specific rather than something to upstream: winresource is
      what embeds the icon and version info into the Windows .exe, so
      removing it upstream would break the Windows release builds. The
      patch header explains this, but say the word if you'd rather see
      it handled differently. <u>As much as I would love to have
        moraine working on all the popular OS's, debian is my top
        priority!</u><br>
      <br>
      Builds cleanly with sbuild in a sid chroot, lintian is quiet.<br>
      <br>
      dget -x
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/moraine/moraine_0.2.2-1.dsc">https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/moraine/moraine_0.2.2-1.dsc</a><br>
      <br>
      Thanks for another round of genuinely educational review.<br>
      <br>
      Regards,<br>
      Jonaz</p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/22/26 14:54, Simon Quigley wrote:<br>
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        Hello Jonaz,<br>
        <br>
        Thanks for the quick followup! Rainy days do indeed make for
        good FOSS days. ;)<br>
        <br>
        I have reviewed the package again, and just have a few minor
        comments, the first of which unfortunately is blocking:<br>
        - In appstream-metadata-license.patch I see you corrected the
        license entry. If I didn't know any better, this looks
        suspicious, simply because you have "Forwarded" set to
        "not-needed" and this is a license change. You are upstream, so
        the best way to handle this in my opinion would be to make the
        change in an upstream commit and link to it in the patch header,
        or make a new release entirely. I don't want to confuse the
        Debian DFSG Team. :) (see <a
          href="https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep3/"
          moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep3/</a> if
        you haven't already.)<br>
        - I would recommend strengthening your upstream metadata file,
        there are tons of options: <a
          href="https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep12/"
          moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep12/</a><br>
        - In the copyright file, since you're upstream, you can just
        have one stanza for your copyright instead of one for * and one
        for debian/*.<br>
        - Since you're upstream, please upstream the manpage.<br>
        <br>
        Otherwise, this package looks much better. Let me know if you
        have further questions, and please remove the moreinfo tag once
        you have another iteration ready.<br>
        <br>
        Best regards,<br>
        Simon Quigley<br>
        <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></div>
      <br>
      <br>
      <div class="gmail_quote">
        <div dir="auto">On July 22, 2026 7:19:45 AM CDT, Thern AI
          Solutions <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a> wrote:</div>
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style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
          <p>Control: tags -1 - moreinfo<br>
            <br>
            Hello Simon, hope you're having a great summer so far!
            Raining here in Sweden, so a perfect time to do some FOSS
            work :)</p>
          <p>moraine 0.2.1-1 is now on mentors, and I owe you a small
            confession: when I wrote last time that all five points were
            done, they were done in my head and in my working copy, but
            they never made it into the package sitting on mentors. You
            were reviewing the old one. Sorry about that. This time I
            checked the uploaded source instead of trusting my own
            memory. I'm still VERY new to this, but loving every minute
            of developing this beauty!<br>
            <br>
            What is actually in this upload:<br>
            <br>
            - debian/changelog is a single "Initial release. (Closes:
            #1141131)" entry.<br>
            - debian/copyright says "Expat" instead of "MIT".<br>
            - Standards-Version is 4.7.4, and Priority and
            Rules-Requires-Root are gone.<br>
            - debhelper-compat is 14, plus dh-sequence-single-binary,
            which dh asks for explicitly in compat 14.<br>
            - debian/watch is the version 5 deb822 format.<br>
            <br>
            Your build log was the most useful part of the review, so
            thank you for attaching it. It turned out there were two
            crates that are not in Debian, and cargo resolves both of
            them even though neither is ever compiled here:<br>
          </p>
          <p>- ksni, the system-tray icon. debian/rules now builds with
            --no-default-features --features gui, so the tray is simply
            left out. The GUI already has a #[cfg(not(feature =
            "tray"))] path for platforms without a tray, so nothing else
            changes.<br>
            - winresource, a Windows-only build-dependency that build.rs
            uses under #[cfg(windows)] to embed the icon into the .exe.
            Cargo resolves target-specific dependencies for every
            target, not just the host, so it broke the Linux build even
            though it is never built. Removed with a quilt patch.<br>
            <br>
            It now builds cleanly with sbuild in a sid chroot, and
            lintian is quiet.<br>
          </p>
          <p>dget -x
            <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/moraine/moraine_0.2.1-1.dsc"
              moz-do-not-send="true">https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/moraine/moraine_0.2.1-1.dsc</a><br>
            <br>
            I am still learning this as I go, so I really do appreciate
            you taking the time. Removing the moreinfo tag with this
            mail, and I am around if you spot anything else.<br>
            <br>
            Best regards,<br>
            Jonaz Thern</p>
          <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/22/26 13:39, Simon Quigley
            wrote:<br>
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            cite="mid:[email protected]">
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            <div dir="auto">Hello,<br>
              <br>
              Thanks for the update here. It seems like you've addressed
              most of or all of the points.<br>
              <br>
              Could you please remove the moreinfo tag once a new
              version is on Mentors?<br>
              <br>
              Thanks,<br>
              Simon</div>
            <br>
            <br>
            <div class="gmail_quote">
              <div dir="auto">On July 17, 2026 3:58:09 PM CDT, Thern AI
                Solutions <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
                  href="mailto:[email protected]" moz-do-not-send="true">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>
                wrote:</div>
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                dir="auto">Hello Simon, and thanx for contacting me. First of all, sorry for the late reply. 3 kids, 2 jobs (1 wich is my own business) and a hours takes alot of time, and Moraine is something I enjoy working on whenever I get a few hours for myself.

Thank you so much for taking the time to go through this in such detail. I'm still fairly new to Debian packaging and learning something new with every round of feedback, so this is genuinely a big help to me. I've addressed all five points:

1. Changelog
   Collapsed it down to a single initial entry and corrected the version to 0.2.0-1 — I hadn't realised a first upload should just be one "Initial release" entry rather than carrying the whole history.

2. Copyright / license name
   Renamed the license from "MIT" to "Expat" in debian/copyright. Good learn that Expat is the correct name for this exact license text in Debian.

3. Standards-Version and control fields
   Bumped Standards-Version to 4.7.4 and dropped both Rules-Requires-Root: no and Priority: optional from the source stanza.

4. debhelper compat
   Upgraded to debhelper-compat 14.

5. Watch file
   Upgraded to version 5. I learned along the way that v5 is a new deb822-style format rather than just a version-number bump, so I rewrote it with the Version/Source/Mode/Matching-Pattern fields (still tracking the git tags).

All five are done in the packaging. I'll give it a final lintian run in a clean unstable chroot and upload the corrected 0.2.0-1 to mentors. Please let me know if there's anything else I should fix — I really appreciate the guidance.

Thanks again,
Jonaz

On 7/14/26 23:18, Simon Quigley wrote:
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Hello,

Thank you for your work here. A few things:
- Please only keep one changelog entry, the initial one, with a corrected version. The additional changelog entries are not needed.
- In the license file, it is expected to use the license name "Expat" instead of "MIT," please fix that.
- Please update Standards-Version to 4.7.4, dropping Rules-Requires-Root: no and Priority: optional.
- Please consider upgrading to debhelper-compat 14.
- Please upgrade the watch file to version 5.

I also can't get it to build, see the attached log.

If this is a Rust package, you might want to include it in the debcargo-conf monorepo following their docs: <a
                href="https://rust-team.pages.debian.net/book/"
                moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://rust-team.pages.debian.net/book/</a>

Please remove the moreinfo tag once you're ready for another review. Feel free to CC me, if I'm available I can re-review.

Best regards,
Simon Quigley
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
                href="mailto:[email protected]" moz-do-not-send="true">[email protected]</a>
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