Hi again (continuing on the list only) On 07/20/2015 05:32 PM, jre wrote: > On 07/19/2015 11:45 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 1:03 PM, jre wrote: >>> Please let me know if this sounds good to you and whether I should start >>> working on this again. >> >> I was planning to wait for 1.8 to come out to do the >> stable/development packaging unificiation, and then after that to work >> on the alternatives setup. > > Therefore I suggest to go ahead with the alternatives setup now > *without* unifying the packaging yet, while already implementing it in a > way that doesn't have to be changed later on.
I'd be happy to generally help more. Of course I'd like to push my pet projects. But there's also the regular bug stuff, where I could commit fixes directly if I were part of the Alioth team. Or I could sort & wrap the files in debian/ which were littered a bit over the years. And I might update the instructions on https://pkg-wine.alioth.debian.org/, or join Stephen in the gecko copyright madness. I could also apply as Debian Maintainer and upload the packages directly. (I do local packaging work and look at Debian including its social ecosystem from a packager's perspective since about 10 years.) Of course I only want to do stuff as part of and in agreement with the team (especially Mike). I don't want to burden you or interfere with your work in any way. So if this would break your workflow please just go ahead with your wonderful work. In the end joining only makes sense, if there is a net gain for the Wine project. About your plans for the unification - that sounds like what I also think works best: Start a new branch from master when Wine 1.8 is released, and from then on only commit debian changes to it. Then use git-buildpackage with a given upstream branch and the new branch as debian branch. The Debian packaging itself might be adapted somewhere along the lines I proposed last year (gbp simplifies the patch- and changelog management, but I didn't think of it back then). (Finally this could also be extended to support wine-staging, be it with or without actual packages in Debian.) Greets jre _______________________________________________ pkg-wine-party mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-wine-party
