Debian Bug report logs - #835210
grafana: new upstream version 4.4.3 available

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: grafana: new upstream version 3.1.1 available

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:29:40 +0200

Package: grafana
Version: 2.6.0+dfsg-3
Severity: wishlist

Grafana v3.1.1 is available since beginning of August 2016,
would be nice to see v3.x in Debian to have that available for
stretch then. :)

Thanks for maintaining grafana!

regards,
-mika-

Message #10 received at 835210@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org>

To: Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org>, 835210@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#835210: grafana: new upstream version 3.1.1 available

Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:56:36 +1000

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On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 4:29:40 PM AEST Michael Prokop wrote:
> Grafana v3.1.1 is available since beginning of August 2016,
> would be nice to see v3.x in Debian to have that available for
> stretch then. :)

I'm not sure if I can make it happen as Grafana became very difficult to 
package:

    https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5046
    https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5044

I'll see if new release is still affected but I could use some help...

-- 
Best wishes,
 Dmitry Smirnov.

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Message #15 received at 835210@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org>

To: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org>

Cc: 835210@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#835210: grafana: new upstream version 3.1.1 available

Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:38:47 +0200

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* Dmitry Smirnov [Wed Aug 24, 2016 at 12:56:36PM +1000]:
> On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 4:29:40 PM AEST Michael Prokop wrote:

> > Grafana v3.1.1 is available since beginning of August 2016,
> > would be nice to see v3.x in Debian to have that available for
> > stretch then. :)

> I'm not sure if I can make it happen as Grafana became very difficult to 
> package:

>     https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5046
>     https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5044

Ouch, thanks for the pointer.

> I'll see if new release is still affected but I could use some help...

Ok, I'm not sure I'll be able to free/locate ressources to help, but
if so I'll let you know.

regards,
-mika-

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Message #20 received at 835210@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ana Guerrero Lopez <ana@debian.org>

To: Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org>, 835210@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#835210: grafana: new upstream version 3.1.1 available

Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:13:50 +0100

Hi,

Grafana is going to be stuck in 2.6 for stretch. :/
I needed a newer version and while upstream provide packages I wanted
something I was able to adapt. My packaging in case is useful
to somebody is at:

https://github.com/edf-hpc/grafana-deb/

Ana

Message #25 received at 835210@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@sources.org>

To: 835210@bugs.debian.org

Subject: May be using the Grafana Debian package for help?

Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 15:33:27 +0200

Dmitry said "I'm not sure if I can make it happen as Grafana became
very difficult to package". Well, upstream provides Debian packages so
they probably can be used to unstuck this very old issue.

http://docs.grafana.org/installation/debian/#apt-repository

Message #30 received at 835210@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>

To: 835210@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: grafana: new upstream version 4.4.3 available

Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 07:47:17 +0100

retitle 835210 grafana: new upstream version 4.4.3 available
thanks

Hi,

Upstream now has 4.4.3 upstream so retitling to match. Dimitry, can
you provide some kind of update on this package...?


Best wishes,

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Message #37 received at 835210@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@debian.org>

To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@sources.org>, 835210@bugs.debian.org

Cc: lamby@debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#835210: May be using the Grafana Debian package for help?

Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 20:09:01 -0500

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On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 03:33:27PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> Dmitry said "I'm not sure if I can make it happen as Grafana became
> very difficult to package". Well, upstream provides Debian packages so
> they probably can be used to unstuck this very old issue.
> 
> http://docs.grafana.org/installation/debian/#apt-repository

I confirm this package works well. I have installed in Debian Stretch
to graph a Prometheus instance and it worked flawlessly.

I strongly recommend we merge with that work.

A.

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Message #42 received at 835210@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@debian.org>, 835210@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@sources.org>, lamby@debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#835210: May be using the Grafana Debian package for help?

Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 01:21:24 +0100

On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 20:09:01 -0500, Antoine Beaupre wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 03:33:27PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > Dmitry said "I'm not sure if I can make it happen as Grafana became
> > very difficult to package". Well, upstream provides Debian packages so
> > they probably can be used to unstuck this very old issue.
> > 
> > http://docs.grafana.org/installation/debian/#apt-repository
> 
> I confirm this package works well. I have installed in Debian Stretch
> to graph a Prometheus instance and it worked flawlessly.

It might work flawlessly, but the upstream "packaing" has much to be
desired though:

  - Appears to have been "packaged" with fpm…
  - The automatically generated metadata is rather poor, probably
    just incorrect. <https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/issues/409>
  - Installs the systemd service file under /usr/lib instead of /lib,
    which would break deb-systemd-helper (#887456), which it does not
    use anyway.
  - Does not enable the systemd service nor the init script.
  - Marks said systemd service file under /usr/lib as a conffile.
  - Changes pathname owners and permissions w/o checking first with
    dpkg-statoverrides.
  - Uses grafana as a user, which can easily clash with user names.
    That should be _grafana.
  - Installs configuration files manually, that it then does not
    cleanup on purge.
  - Ships unstripped executables.
  - Embeds a metric ton of javascript modules.
  - Possibly more…

> I strongly recommend we merge with that work.

…so it's definitely not ready for any merge, which I don't think it's
even worth it anyway, given the way this was generated.

Thanks,
Guillem

Message #47 received at 835210@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>

To: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>, 835210@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@sources.org>, lamby@debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#835210: May be using the Grafana Debian package for help?

Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:39:20 -0500

On 2018-01-19 01:21:24, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 20:09:01 -0500, Antoine Beaupre wrote:
>> On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 03:33:27PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> > Dmitry said "I'm not sure if I can make it happen as Grafana became
>> > very difficult to package". Well, upstream provides Debian packages so
>> > they probably can be used to unstuck this very old issue.
>> > 
>> > http://docs.grafana.org/installation/debian/#apt-repository
>> 
>> I confirm this package works well. I have installed in Debian Stretch
>> to graph a Prometheus instance and it worked flawlessly.
>
> It might work flawlessly, but the upstream "packaing" has much to be
> desired though:
>
>   - Appears to have been "packaged" with fpm…
>   - The automatically generated metadata is rather poor, probably
>     just incorrect. <https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/issues/409>
>   - Installs the systemd service file under /usr/lib instead of /lib,
>     which would break deb-systemd-helper (#887456), which it does not
>     use anyway.
>   - Does not enable the systemd service nor the init script.
>   - Marks said systemd service file under /usr/lib as a conffile.
>   - Changes pathname owners and permissions w/o checking first with
>     dpkg-statoverrides.
>   - Uses grafana as a user, which can easily clash with user names.
>     That should be _grafana.
>   - Installs configuration files manually, that it then does not
>     cleanup on purge.
>   - Ships unstripped executables.
>   - Embeds a metric ton of javascript modules.
>   - Possibly more…
>
>> I strongly recommend we merge with that work.
>
> …so it's definitely not ready for any merge, which I don't think it's
> even worth it anyway, given the way this was generated.

Ouch... sorry, I didn't look at the actual thing - i just assumed (wow.)
that they did the right thing. How naive of me...

Anyways... As usual, I guess the next step is to break this down into
distinct tasks, e.g. listing the npm dependencies that need to be
shipped and so on.

Sorry for the naiveté.

A.

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continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too
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Message #52 received at 835210@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@debian.org>

To: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>, 835210@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@debian.org>, Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@sources.org>, lamby@debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#835210: May be using the Grafana Debian package for help?

Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 19:42:08 +1100

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On Friday, 19 January 2018 11:21:24 AM AEDT Guillem Jover wrote:
> ... but the upstream "packaing" has much to be desired though:

Thanks for analysis, Guillem. Upstream packaging seems to remain as 
incompetent as it was when I had a glimpse at it back when I was working on  
Grafana packaging...

All the best,
 Dmitry Smirnov.

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Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and
an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth,
whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. We can
simply be ourselves.
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Cc: grafana@packages.debian.org

Subject: Bug#909592: Removed package(s) from unstable

Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 06:55:39 +0000

Version: 2.6.0+dfsg-3+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package grafana has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

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