On 12/31/18 9:47 AM, Colin Law wrote: > 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
Perhaps the question then becomes: Is the team willing to support an unofficial PPA for the latest version of GnC? If so, I'll do more research. If not, I'll stop. > On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 17:44, Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> 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 >> stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com >> kg...@arrl.net >> 253-350-0166 >> ------------------------------------------- >> GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 ------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8
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