dann frazier wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:09:07PM -0400, Geoffroy Vall?e wrote: >> Dann, i did not have a lot of time to spend on systemimager-debian lately >> but >> be sure that i will do my best help to create a new version for unstable. >> Actually i had some weird behaviors in some very specific cases and i need >> to >> double-check what is the current status for that. >> >> Regarding your point on OSCAR constraints versus Debian constraints you are >> perfectly right but if i can help in order to avoid systemimager to become >> orphan, i will do my best. What i will try to do ASAP is to create a TODO >> list of points to address in order to have acceptable debian packages for >> systemimager-3.8. > > OK - sounds good. I do realize its a lot of work and hope we find some > other people willing to help so that you're not carrying all the load > yourself. There were a few people interested in taking over the > systemimager package as a team a while back, but no patches ever > surfaced. >
IMHO a team of maintainers would be the right solution, systemimager is a very complicated package: it has multiple packages, arch strangeness, binaries into arch-independent packages, etc. (kudos Dann!) This means a lot of work. For this reason I *do not* want to be the maintainer of the Debian packages and in particular I *do not* want to learn the complicated Debian policies. The work to be done in the development, bug fixing, documentation, user support, etc etc is enough for me. :-) And, in general, I think it's better to have a good software that doesn't work perfectly with a distro, respect to have a bad/obsolete software that works perfectly. This is just to clarify that my focus in this issue would be to only make the deb packaging easier and I'll do my best for this. Now that I have a debian-like environment available for any kind of test I'm ready to accept (and try to fix) any bug, change some things (maybe not everything) in order to be more compliant with Debian and reduce the "diffs" from the official packages (read: reduce the work for the maintainers). I hope in this way the *systemimager maintainer* could become a more attracting job. ;-) All of these useless words to say that I'm ready to discuss the packages conflicts with the Debian policies. Feel free to start the bug flood... -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-devel mailing list sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
