hi emilio, thanks for the work on this!
the biggest problem that we had been facing thus far is that the debian-x
folks are very reluctant to take on management of cdbs-based packaging, which
is why i never just took and cross-ported ubuntu's packages (which is what
you've used as a basis for your packages, it seems).
as you can see, my ITP was a while back. a combination of factors have kept
me really busy in the past few months, though it looks like this is finally
cleared up now, and i can start spending time on fun things again :)
i'd like to continue working on debianized compiz-foo packages that the
debian-x folks are more happy to team-maintain, but it seems like a real
waste to leave everyone sitting around waiting in the meantime, esp. when
someone (you) has already provided the working packages.
so, i'm cc'ing debian-x with a proposal, that i hope will make everyone happy:
0 - do a quick audit of the packages you've provided.
1 - i take the packages that you've provided, add myself to Uploaders, and
sponsor uploads into unstable of these packages.
1.5 - bug reports go to you as the official maintainer, and you can coordinate
with me on any fixes/updates which i will also sponsor.
2 - i continue working on the non-cdbs debianisation in the pkg-xorg repo
3 - at some point >= now, we have a "handover" where the pkg-xorg maintained
packages replace the sponsored package.
4 - you are invited to join debian-x and continue to help team-maintain the
latest pkg-xorg maintained packages.
what does everyone think of this?
sean
On Monday 22 October 2007 05:29:47 pm Emilio Scalise wrote:
> I've packaged this software and compiled it for debian etch i386.
>
> See http://emiscabpo.wordpress.com/ for instructions.
>
> Apt lines are these:
>
> deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/emiscabpo/compiz-0.6.0 ./
> deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/emiscabpo/compiz-0.6.0 ./
>
> Regards,
> Emilio
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