Plans of bringing cockpit-files to Ubuntu

[anapeksha]

I am a sys admin and want to have the ability to install cockpit-files directly from ubuntu ppa's. When do you plan to publish this package to Ubuntu? Or is it already done and waiting to be approved?

Also, in cockpit manifest.json (requires.cockpit = "318") does not work with Ubuntu 24.04.1, need to change it to 314 to make it work.

[martinpitt]

I'm still waiting for cockpit-files to get accepted into Debian -- unfortunately it has been stuck in https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html for 7 months now. I don't know what to do there. Once it goes into Debian, it will flow into Ubuntu devel series more or less automatically, and then I can backport it.

[anapeksha]

Okay! Eagerly waiting to have it natively in Debian based systems.

[anapeksha]

Any blockers from the Debian team? I mean it has been 9 months since the package is stuck. Any idea how we can get this resolved?

[martinpitt]

Unfortunately NEW review seems completely stuck 😢 And now with the pending trixie freeze it won't get much better I'm afraid.

[anapeksha]

That's very very unfortunate. I really liked the piece of software, but my organization does not allow any installation on servers that are not an official ubuntu package 😭

[jhnpldng01]

That's Debian, stability over all else.

For now, I grabbed Navigator by 45Drives which is decent. I'll try cockpit-files when it becomes available in Debian. Not a coder so MAKE would likely BREAK something if I tried.

Would love to see some screenshots of it.

[jes-ale]

make worked flawlessly for me on a fresh Debian 12 VPS. But it didn't work on a years-old running Ubuntu VPS, had to go with 45Drives too.