Hi, Cherokee was originally packaged for Debian in 2004 (in a full Bolivian theater, having the luck and joy of sitting next to Álvaro who explained all the process to this C-agnostic coder) and slept quietly for about a year. IIRC, I made the first Debian upload around 2005.
Since 2005 (surprise, surprise), four years have passed. Cherokee has changed quite a bit, and so has Debian. My packaging has been updated (I'd say) in quite a patchy way. And we are proud that Cherokee is not a patchy server! So, I will soon invest some work into redoing the packaging, with updated tools, and possibly changing bits of the process. Why am I putting this so public, in a mailing list, and not just tell Álvaro and Leonel (the directly affected people) about it? • It might make me skip a release or two. That has never been much of an issue to me, as at Debian we focus on long-term releases, but I know my packaging is used by people as Leonel (and possibly others) to provide up-to-date packaging on different distributions. Leonel basically has taken over the grunt work of updating, for which I really thank him, but those releases will quite probably not be "blessed" by me, if it means anything. • It might break back-portability. This might be a major annoyance to others — I will most probably raise the debhelper (package building infrastructure) to require 7.x, as it is beautifully different from the über-verbose thing we now have… DH7 is available in Debian Lenny (2008), although I might end up using overrides, which are newer. I have talked with some Ubuntu people, and they tell me that DH7 _has_ been backported, but as they don't use PPA, they are not sure if strange steps should be taken to build your packages. Anyway, as you are painfully aware, I suck at managing my own time. I am currently at DebConf in Spain, and have been here for almost two weeks. DebConf, contrary to the popular belief is not really good productivity-wise. It is great to share ideas and social-wise (Debian is a social club more than a Linux distribution), but being two weeks at DebConf only means I am lagging two more weeks with my real life stuff :-/ but… Still, those are the plans. I hope not to make life painful for any of you, much to the contrary. -- Gunnar Wolf • [email protected] • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244
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