I don't think the guys/gals that maintain the official Debian and Ubuntu packages are on this list, though I may be wrong.
Colin On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 17:44, Stephen M. Butler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dev Team, > > So far, three folks have either used or inquired about using the debian > package for 3.4. Marketing theory (no, I'm a software engineer by > avocation) says that there are several more that would take advantage if > it were more "supported". > > Here are my thoughts: > > 1. Both Ubuntu (Launchpad) and Debian request certain files in a > ~/debian folder. Most of these appear to be copies of files the > application already has. Perhaps a softlink could be put in the > debian folder that points to the original so that changes in the > original automatically show up in the folder. Does this work via git? > 2. I'm willing to coordinate the effort to build that folder (I presume > on the Master branch) but will need volunteers from more technical > folks from time-to-time to handle some of the techy stuff. I know > the devs are busy squashing bugs so this would have to take a back > seat to that. > 3. Building this folder might even be beneficial to the official > packagers for the various distros. > 4. One team for whom I did light testing, published a daily build (no > longer daily as the software matured) for the adventurous. > > > https://launchpad.net/~subsurface/+archive/ubuntu/subsurface-daily > > I would be willing to push the files up to Launchpad if the team sees > value in perusing this. However, I don't want to step on anybodies toes > if this would get in the way of the official release process for the > various distros. And, if this got to the point of highly automated, > perhaps the dev team would prefer to do the push themselves. > > --Steve > > -- > Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM > [email protected] > [email protected] > 253-350-0166 > ------------------------------------------- > GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
