<quote who="Sven Luther"> > > On the other hand, it can be done completely independently of Debian > > manpower and serverpower, by non-maintainers (cooperating with official > > Debian maintainers) who are interested in working with fresh GNOME > > Desktop packages on woody for fun or for work. > > But it needs official endorsement, if not, then it will be no different > than the thousand or so savage backports that exists around the net.
Nono, you have FOSS best practices backwards: We do it, and *prove* that it is *worthy* of official endorsement. Then it will be the one that everyone talks about, and thus rather different to "the thousand or so other backports that exist around the net". > Two things though, this will be a x86 only repository i guess, and you > would not have access to all the debian autobuilders for different > architectures, right ? Initially, I guarantee that it would be i386 only. Should it prove to be a very useful addition to Debian, perhaps people who care about other archs will contribute. "If you build it, they will come." > And second, would this be for gnome packages only, or a generalised > backport repository ? In particular, how would you react to having KDE > backported packages there ? There's certainly scope for a generalised backport repository, but I would like to concentrate on Debian Desktop stuff first and foremost, at least for now. I wouldn't be too fussed including KDE stuff if someone wanted to help out, my only worry is the very noticeable extra load that KDE builds imply. :-) > > The official Debian maintainers won't have to do anything beyond > > responding to dependency-related wishlist bugreports, so that > > *hopefully*, our woody backports will not require much human > > intervention at all. > > Yep, that would be nice, but in practice, many packages have problem > building in woody, due to dependencies. I think you missed a crucial point in my paragraph above. :-) > Yep, but i am not sure it responds to the real need Extremadura, Spain: 80,000 Debian/GNOME desktops, potentially 150,000. An incredible project that is raising eyebrows across the world, corporate and community. Massive exposure for Debian and GNOME. I probably won't ever see it in action, but I'll certainly try to help out. :-) Real need? My word. :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ What did the sausage say to the tomato at breakfast? "There's not mushroom this morning, is there?"
