There are debian packages for j801 beta, putting them to official debian repos will be a final goal, but not yet ready.
www.jsoftware.com/download/jqt On Jan 15, 2014 9:26 AM, "Raul Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know if there is any work on doing a debian package for J? > > I do not see anything obvious at > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/ but that does not > necessarily mean anything. > > I used to be a debian developer (for that matter, I helped design the > packaging system and was on the technical committee for a time). I got > out because of a mix of severe lack of time due to "real life issues", > and because every time I stated doing something someone else would > jump in and release a version of what I was working on. > > I think things are quite a bit more locked down now. If I were to do > the debian submission process myself, I would probably need to > generate a new pgp key, and get it signed by people. But if there's no > activity on packaging J, it's not all that difficult to do. > > And another possibility might be to put together the package and let > someone else run it through the submission process. > > That said, there would also be the issue of what should be packaged. > Since any new package would be going into unstable, I imagine that a > j8 instance would be best? [Subject to change, after feedback from > people at debian, of course.] > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
