Packaging conmon for Dangerzone

[apyrgio]

Context

We need to package conmon because the current version in Ubuntu Jammy and Debian Bullseye (2.0.25) breaks when reading large binary data from the container's stdin. The version right after that (2.0.26) fixes it, so we believe it should be trivial to package it.

The Debian maintainers of the conmon package for Debian Bullseye are considering providing a fix (basically copy the patch from 2.0.26, see here). We can simply download their Debian package and ship it via our packages.freedom.press repo.

Acquire the package

Create a folder where the .deb file will be stored:

mkdir deb_dist

Start a Podman/Docker container for Debian Bullseye and mount that folder:

podman run -it --rm -v ./deb_dist:/deb_dist debian:bullseye bash

Within the container, grab the .deb file using dget:

cd /deb_dist
echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ oldstable-proposed-updates main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oldstable-pu.list
apt update
apt install -y devscripts
dget conmon=2.0.25+ds1-1.1+deb11u1

The package should now be available in ./deb_dist/conmon_2.0.25+ds1-1.1+deb11u1_amd64.deb

Useful links

• Podman can crash during standard stream I/O dangerzone#685