packaging for Debian

[eighthave]

I'm a Debian Developer and I just looked into packaging pynitrokey for Debian. It looks totally feasible, but non-trivial. First, is that something y'all would be interested in supporting? If so, I have some questions:

• What's the barrier to using a newer versions here:
  • click >=8.0, <=8.1.3 ( Debian has 8.1.6)
  • python-dateutil ~= 2.7.0 (Debian has 2.8.2)
• How would you envision handling security updates?
• Do you know anyone else that might already be working on this, or would be interested in helping?

[robin-nitrokey]

Thanks for your interest in packaging pynitrokey! Generally, this is something we are interested in, but we would have to figure out if and how (security) updates could be realized. That being said, pynitrokey is not really stable at the moment, and we plan to do some major changes in the near future to improve versioning and stability. So I would suggest to hold off on that topic until we made those changes and a 1.0 release, and then evaluate whether it is stable enough that is is feasible to support it in Debian.