[Bug 2060056] Re: [MIR] dotnet8

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

Also valid for Jammy/Mantic, see [1] for more details.
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[1]:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dotnet6/+bug/2023531/comments/22

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Title:
  [MIR] dotnet8

Status in dotnet8 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in dotnet8 source package in Jammy:
  Fix Committed
Status in dotnet8 source package in Mantic:
  Fix Committed
Status in dotnet8 source package in Noble:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  This is a follow up to the dotnet6 MIR (see LP: #2023531). We would
  like to have dotnet8 in main too, which was already discussed during
  the dotnet6 MIR (see comment 13 [1]).

  The dotnet8 package is structurally nearly identical. We do this
  deliberately to lower the maintenance burden.

  [Notable differences]

  * There is a single public upstream repository [2] to download all the
  source code from, therefore uscan can be used to produce the a orig
  tarball. Note: We do not use uscan, because its limitations adds
  overhead for our purposes (e.g. using the security repository by
  default, removing non-linux files, conditionaly including ms prebuilds
  for bootstraping, etc.).

  * The source package and it's binary packages have a different
  upstream version scheme (see spec FO127 [3]).

  * The source package produces additional binary packages, which
  include managed code debug symbols (packages with the name pattern
  *-dbg-8.0). See upstream issue [4] and PR [5].

  * We no longer need a .git folder in the orig tarball thanks of
  upstream efforts.

  [Other]

  The naming pattern of the *-dbg-8.0 packages is a recommendation by
  upstream that we follow. See [6]

  [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dotnet6/+bug/2023531/comments/13
  [2] https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet
  [3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xKaDHPC9QuxFOGjqK_oNmlurPr6mcaWMc0S-_IRE6A0/edit?usp=sharing
  [4] https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/3621
  [5] https://github.com/dotnet/installer/pull/17454
  [6] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/distribution-packaging#debug-packages

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