-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jason Spiro a écrit : > Hi Adam and Loïc, > > Thanks for your replies. Unfortunately, right around the time I > opened the bug report http://bugs.debian.org/391309 I got frustrated ( > porting g-a-i took more patience than I had :-D ) and I didn't work on > it anymore. But see below. > > 2007/3/10, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'd like to get gnome-app-install in Debian ASAP, preferably under >> pkg-gnome co-maintenance. I would like to benefit of your efforts to >> Debianize the Ubuntu package, but there were newer versions of the >> package in Ubuntu addressing some of your TODOs mentionned in #391309 >> (at least the Python policy stuff). > > Maybe uupdate(1) (it's in apt somewhere) could help you merge all the > stuff together? I don't know personally: I've never used uupdate > myself. > >> Would you one of you two (or you two) be interested in being the >> official Debian maintainer(s) with the GNOME team as uploaders? Do you >> have time to prepare the package right now? >> I would like to import the package in pkg-gnome ASAP, perhaps starting >> with the Ubuntu version and merging any Debianization changes you did; >> if you're interested in maintaining this package, I can start with the >> import and give you commit rights to do the merging. >> >> Please let me know if you're not interested in maintaining the package; >> in all cases, I'm interested in any help to integrate the latest >> version of the package (0.3.26) with Debian. > > I am not willing to prepare the package (would take me too much time) > but if you are working on it and get stuck with a problem, or have > general architectural questions, I am glad to help. Contact me by > Jabber (jasonspiro at gmail.com), MSN, or email. Also, once the > package works, if you don't want to maintain it, I can. (Notes: I am > not a Debian Developer, and I no longer use Debian much; mostly Ubuntu > instead. I still have a machine with etch installed though it only > has 100MB or so of disk free. I am involved with emacs add-on > development nowadays and haven't been spending any time on Debian > stuff.) > > Adam, are you willing to package g-a-i? > > Loïc, do you know: are the pkg-gnome people willing to package it? Are > you? > > By the way: here are my ideas for gnome-app-install: > > It sounds to me like it would be annoying to maintain a full set of > patches on top of gnome-app-install that would apply to Debian. Maybe > it's better if g-a-i did checks at runtime to see what OS it was > running on and used different available-repository information and > such based on that? Should you or I contact upstream g-a-i > maintainers (g-a-i upstream is a bunch of Ubuntu developers AFAIK) and > ask them if we could have commit rights so we could get that? > > Cheers, > Jason > > P.S. Adam, I didn't get your reply: the BTS did not send me a CC of > it. I don't know why. Do you know: is the BTS automatically supposed > to send bug reporters copies of all replies to a bug report? If not, > why not?
Hi, For now I don't have much time to work on it, however I could give a few help if needed. Sorry! Regards, Adam. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF9QlrHNb/igTI5bsRAgtqAJsFaeRHYTYxctDZpXKIDxTixx4lgACdHRlp nITLl+sSmjRIetZx0OnTbKQ= =LBu/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----