On Dec 2, 2009, at 3:33 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
The compelling reason is that 'pd' means multiple packages
'puredata',
'pd-extended', and perhaps others. Where is the harm in changing
this?
but there are so many trivial patches in the world that won't do no
harm
to anybody. this is not a reason to apply them "just so".
i understand that /u/l/puredata seems to be more natural than /u/l/pd.
however, so far _this_ hasn't caused any problems i know of yet.
so why change it?
if it does cause problem and changing it to /usr/lib/puredata would
fix
them, then i don't see a reason not to change it.
Its a trivial patch, its not a directory that people should be ever
changing since its managed by the packages. If it causes problems,
we
can change it back.
who?
it's naturally easy, if you are already debian developer.
if you are not, it is rather hard (i know that the debcon is in ny,
and
you will be a full fledged dd in 3 weeks or so; but not yet)
the experiences i made so far with mentors are rather unsatisfying in
this regard
that is: i haven't found a sponsor yet to upload either the new
release
of puredata nor of gem.
with this in mind, the solution you suggest is rather illusory.
You don't need to be a DD to upload packages, you can be a Debian
Maintainer, that's the route that I am going for now, much lower
hurdle. You then need a DD sponsor to add new packages, but you can
upload updates to existing packages directly. I recommend that you go
for that as well, but I am ok with doing the uploads if I am the only
one.
http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint
By the way, could you check in your files for the package into
packages/debian? That seems to be a natural place to Or do you
maintain them elsewhere (i.e. besides in the package itself)?
.hc
Here's an example:
desiredata: /usr/lib/desiredata
puredata: /usr/lib/pd
pd-extended: /usr/lib/pd-extended
libraries install path: /usr/lib/pd-externals
an example for what?
here's another example:
desiredata: /usr/lib/desiredata
puredata: /usr/lib/pd
pd-extended: /usr/lib/pd-extended
libraries install path: /usr/lib/pd
mfgsdr
IOhannes
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