On 12/16/2016 01:26 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 18:23 -0600, Israel wrote: > >> Hi, I am Israel, the main developer of ToriOS. > Hi, welcome to the list :) Hi, Thanks Paul > >> Jessie, ... is supported for a good length of time, thus providing an >> LTS version of ToriOS. > Speaking of LTS, you may want to take a look at Debian's LTS efforts: > > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS Excellent I will look at it. >> We at ToriOS, are a rag-tag international band who all met through the >> Lubuntu Community, and our love for helping others. Most of us are >> still active participants on the Lubuntu mailing list, and continue to >> help people who need assistance. > Some of you might be interested in joining Debian's LXQt/LXDE teams: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/LXQtPackagingTeam This is something I will look into. I have Debian with LXDE on one machine currently, and I have tested LXQt out a number of times. >> Sure thing, we only modify JWM, though since Samuel Henrique has began >> maintaining JWM again after Jari Alto could not this is less needed, >> though I still provide a more up-to-date version. >> No other packages are directly modified. We add additional packages >> through a PPA. > So it sounds like you are modifying the jwm source package and > rebuilding the binary package rather than modifying the binary package > directly. I'll update the wiki page to be clearer. Correct, thank you very much. >> A binary menu generator for JWM >> A graphical settings manager (JWM Settings Manager) > Have you talked to JWM upstream about these tools? Yes, https://github.com/joewing/jwm/issues/349 It is a separate package all together, so it would be something that Debian would need to package separately. >> The only package we modify is JWM, and I have assisted Samuel in >> updating this package to the current state in Debian Jessie. This >> includes a revised control (adding SVG and jpeg support) and a more >> simplified rules file, etc... > Ok. > >> I was unaware of this. We directly use Debian and only add packages >> from a PPA, and modify only JWM. After reading that it is unclear if I >> should modify it, as Debian is the main vendor of packages, rather than >> ToriOS > It would be good if your installer system or any metapackages you have > could set it up properly. There are a few different reasons for that, > the main one is that popcon and reportbug record that information. I can do it in the base tarball and will. I did not know this existed, but will add this change in. > >> I am not sure if I have the time or funding to travel to Canada, as >> ToriOS receives no monetary funds. > Fair enough, if you ever get the chance it is a great experience. It sounds very exciting! > >> Thank you, I have been following this in preparation, and have already >> spoken with the project leader about this upcoming change. > Excellent. >
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