[Moved the discussion to the main Debian-Med mailing list.] Dear all,
I tried the preliminary Debian package for gamgi (http://www.gamgi.org/) today, and I realised that it needs the gtkglarea5 pakcage, that provides the GtkGLArea library. Unfortunately, this library depends on GTK 1.2, which is not supported anymore (see http://www.gtk.org/documentation-old.html). Because of this lack of support, Debian is in the process of removing all packages that need gtk-1.2. To make things worse, the gtkglarea5 package in Debian seems almost abandonned since 2003, and the GtkGLArea library itself is in a critical stage, because it was abandonned for a long time, and its major update is not yet released (see http://www.mono-project.com/GtkGLArea). It is possible that our pakcage will be refused in the Debian main archive because of these issues. This said, since we already did most of the packaging work, I think that we can provide the package unofficially so that it can be distributed on http://www.gamgi.org/. For the environment variables, we have a policy in Debian that we set them through the use of a wrapper if they are necessary for the program to work correctly. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.9 If we want the choices of the users to be preserved, we would have to write a wrapper accordingly. I usually prefer to hardcode default values in the program directly. After all, since the program and its doc will be installed through a package, file locations can be known in advance. Would it be possible to do this with gamgi ? To better integrate gamgi in desktop environments, I will add an entry for it in the Debian and FreeDesktop menus. Can you suggest an icon ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org WakÅ, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
