How does it take me 2 weeks to respond to things like this :)

On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 19:28 +0200, Jonny Lamb wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 18:45:26 +0100, Mark Ellis wrote:

> > Yeah looks reasonable. Isn't synce-gvfs in debian yet ?
> 
> No. It appeared after I stopped using SynCE and didn't want to take on
> another package I wasn't using. An RFP was filed which no-one has
> answered yet[0].
> 
> 0. http://bugs.debian.org/517846
> 

Right, I'll knock something up and send it over to you.

> > I was afraid that was going to happen at some point, gnet has some
> > really useful functions.
> 
> ...that GIO doesn't have? Like what? File bugs!
> 

Actually, after a better look at the newer glib and gio APIs, most of it
is an easy swap, just need to come up with a way of checking the
interface is active.

> > Jonny, I want to get debian updated, how should we go about this ? Do
> > you want me to feed you updated packages, or can you get me upload
> > rights ? I'm not really sure how to go about it ?
> 
> Well, actually, I updated all the SynCE packages in Debian a few days
> ago so everything's up-to-date, but it would be nice to have a
> maintainer who actually knows what's going on.
> 
> I'd be more than happy for you to adopt the packages, if you want? To
> get upload rights you need to apply to NM[1] which can take months and
> you have to prove previous participation in Debian, etc. Before that,
> you must get packages you want uploaded "sponsored" by an existing
> DD. Of course, I'd be more than happy to sponsor any uploads you want
> done -- just drop me a line on jo...@debian.org

Right, I've had a look at it, does look a bit long. Maybe get to that
further down the line.

> 
> So, at the moment, I'm keeping all my packaging in Git[2] and using
> the git-buildpackage tool which I find really nifty. I would obviously
> recommend this too, but really don't mind what you do. If you want to
> give it a shot, just clone my repos. Otherwise you can download the
> existing packages in the archive, and go from there. Once you're done
> with a package, upload it somewhere and send me a link to the dsc and
> I'll take a look!
> 
> Thanks for taking this on; I've been meaning to get this into better
> hands for a while!
> 
> 1. http://nm.debian.org/
> 2. http://git.jonnylamb.com/
> 

No worries, I've been meaning to suggest it for a while ! I'll give the
new packages the once over, sort out synce-gvfs, and we'll go from
there.

Ta
Mark


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