rewrite or drop as paste.debian.net's xml-rpc interface is gone?

[crpb]

paste.debian.net's xml-rpc endpoint was removed and grml-paste has no functionality anymore.

So it stands to question if it would even be still worth keeping the package alive or either switch to something like pastebinit if that will have functionality for paste.debian.net or maybe just add a function to grml-etc-core which allows of pasting files/stdin instead.

curl works so far..

command -p curl --show-error --fail --silent \
  -Fposter="$USER" \
  -Flang=bash \
  -Fprivate=1 \
  -Fcode= \
  -F"upload=@/etc/os-release" \
  -Fexpire=7776000 \
  -Fpaste=Send https://paste.debian.net \
  --write-out https://paste.debian.net"%header{location}"

so this could probably be done via pythons urrlib instead ?_?

bugs.debian.org #1124076 (just so there is one..)

[mika]

If we can use something via grml-zshrc that would be nice, as that can be updated quite easily (as compared to an actual Debian package), so I like your suggestion, @crpb.

(I don't want to keep maintaining a Debian package for something we can't control on the server side and where things might just break like it happened those days.)

Should we ask for removal of the grml-paste package from Debian trixie and testing/unstable?

Should we provide this new paste function under a name like dpaste or so, and provide an alias grml-paste with pointer towards it? 🤔

Also @zeha @jkirk - any opinions? suggestions?

[zeha]

We still need something that works on the Live ISO. I understand paste.d.n might require a salsa login in the future, so I'm not sure we should ponder using that.

Do we have anything else we can consider stable, or do we need to stand up something ourselves again?

[crpb]

I understand paste.d.n might require a salsa login in the future

nono, only for things like deletion of your own pastes and whatever

paste.debian.net

• anonymous pasting will not be removed
• pastes w/o authentication are limited to TTL=90days
• pastes can only be hidden (so you will always need to know the PASTEID)
• ...

maybe @formorer 👋🏼 could shed some light?

[zeha]

I understand paste.d.n might require a salsa login in the future

nono, only for things like deletion of your own pastes and whatever

ok, that would be good. still would need to understand how Anubis can be bypassed.

[crpb]

still would need to understand how Anubis can be bypassed.

it's not yet up. hopefully my span in #debian.de helped :-]

2212-223140 < cb> formorer: du sagtest xml-rpc is nimmer. das bedeutet grml-paste is futsch oder? /usr/bin/grml-paste:DEFAULT_SERVER = "https://paste.debian.net/server.pl"
2212-231101 < cb> hmm.. und dieses anubis geraffel... geht da überhaupt noch vim https://paste.debian.net/plainh/123456 ? /(°o°)\
2212-231112 < cb> wenn nicht dann ist das ja nicht mehr zu gebrauchen! :P