Axel Beckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Jeremy, > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:11:15PM -0400, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: >> > as I may have already mentioned, I want to package Conkeror for >> > Debian. Since XULRunner 1.9 is now in Debian Experimental on more than >> > a few architectures, I now started with packaging. >> >> Great. Although Conkeror is quite easy to install even now without a >> package (and having the git repository around makes it easier to >> update),
> Yeah, especially if you have such a step by step howto for the git > usage. > The disadvantage of a repository instead of packaged releases is that > you don't know if you just downloaded something stable (like an > release) or something broken with just a bunch of really new and cool > but buggy features committed into the repository. (Yeah, I know, it's > alpha software, just philosophing... ;-) > But anyway, that's now partially my job, at least for Debian. ;-) >> given that it doesn't really require compilation (except the >> tiny spawn-process-helper.c program), > Hmmm, haven't had to compile that one yet. Works without. Or is there > a binary in the repository that works on 64 bit Linux out of the box? > :-) There are no binaries in the repository. This program is only needed to spawn external processes in some cases. It is needed, for example, for editing a text form field in an external editor, e.g. by the C-i binding while in text input mode. I suppose it is good for you to know this, since you are going to package it. :) >> packaging it in Debian might provide more exposure and introduce >> more users to it. > I hope so. :-) >> > Neither from the website nor from the source, its clear, who is the >> > author(s) of conkeror and under which license it's published. >> >> I updated the repository to include a top-level COPYING file that >> specifies the license, and added copyright information to each file. >> Additionally, I moved the content/contributors file to CREDITS and >> updated it significantly. > Hey, that's perfect! Will immediately fetch the new version from the > repo and work further on the package. Thanks! -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
