On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 04:29 +0200, Jonny Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 10:10:28PM +0100, Mark Ellis wrote: > > Hopefully something that will help anyone wanting to package synce-gvfs. > > > > I've added a hack to make a self contained source package, explained in > > the README. There's a script that will copy required files from the main > > gvfs tree and fix the build system to allow a make dist, giving a > > stand-alone package. > > > > Not ideal, but it's the best I can think of until gvfs provides for 3rd > > party backends. This is apparently planned, but I would guess not likely > > to happen soon. > > I don't plan to package synce-gvfs for Debian soon for this reason: > > "The GNOME team has decided to delay the upload of nautilus 2.22 (and > several other similar packages) to unstable. GNOME 2.22 introduced > the new gvfs library, a replacement for the venerable gnome-vfs, > which is, while introducing several new features, not yet completely > regression-free. More complex file backends, such as smb, are still not > ready for mass-deployment."[0] > > Although I could prepare a package for experimental, I'm not sure if > there's really that much point. >
I can't fault Debian's reasoning, I think Ubuntu jumped the gun on this one. It's a good piece of software, but not quite ready. Mark
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