|--==> Dana Olson writes: DO> On 3/5/06, Free Ekanayaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>|--==> Dana Olson writes: >> DO> Qsampler (based on the included debian/ dir from the source) >> >>The included debian/ dir should work fine, but just FYI: >> >>http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/qsampler/ >>http://archive.64studio.com/pool/main/q/qsampler/
DO> I looked at your Mentors one. It has a huge diff (the DO> config.sub/config.guess files needn't be there). Also, the Ubuntu guys DO> are very strict with things like debian/copyright and debian/rules, DO> the version of debhelper, the debian/compat file, README.Debian, etc. DO> So I had to do what they wanted, and could not just grab the one that DO> you did. Also, your .orig.tar.gz is modified, which is why I couldn't DO> just modify your work, and did it from scratch. Yes, all your points are right. That's also why those packages are not in Debian yet, I made them in hurry of other projects and need further work. DO> If qsampler was actually in Debian, I would've just requested a sync, DO> but it isn't yet (not sure why). DO> Unless Free says otherwise, I won't work on gmorgan (Free has an ITP DO> #338691, which I based my Dapper package on, although I had to change DO> a bunch of stuff to get it accepted). >> >>If you wish to maintain it for Debian as well, it's fine for me. As a >>general rule I think we should try to maintain everything directly in >>Debian, and let derived distributions (as Ubuntu) pull in things >>without the need of patching them (whenever possible). DO> I agree, but I don't run Debian (aside from on my server) so I got DO> involved with Ubuntu, and considering I only started on Feb. 10th, DO> there was no time to waste if I wanted Dapper to ship with anything DO> new, considering the cutoff date was the 23rd. I don't think it would DO> have been enough time to filter out of Debian and into Ubuntu in 13 DO> days. No problem, even just having the *plan* to care about that is good. Cheers, Free -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
