[pve-devel] [RFC PATCH installer] buildsys: add static version of proxmox-auto-install-assistant

[Thomas Lamprecht]

Am 16.08.24 um 18:19 schrieb Christoph Heiss:
> This adds a separate debian package to the build, containing a
> statically-built version of `proxmox-auto-install-assistant`, as
> was suggested in #4788 [0] (for proxmox-backup-client), separately by 
> Thomas also.
> 
> Rust nowadays makes building static binaries pretty easy, even when
> OpenSSL etc. is used.
> 
> NB: When run through lintian, the resulting package produces the
> `shared-library-lacks-prerequisites`, which overalls seems rather
> irrelevant (or even bogus?) in our case [1].
> 
> [0] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4788
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/2023/02/msg00045.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Heiss <c.heiss at proxmox.com>
> ---
> Marked RFC to see if the packaging is overall sane -- I haven't done a
> lot of (Debian) packaging yet, so please don't hesitate with
> suggestions.

That looks alright to me, only open question is IMO if we want to have the
compat symlink or avoid that and allow installing both in parallel (mostly
useful for testing, but slightly worse UX for users, no hard feelings here)