On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 08:31:01AM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > > > I'm sorry to disagree with you, the GNOME project *does* > > distribute binaries (and packages too), looking > > in http://www.gnome.org/start/ will give you pointers > > to packages for Caldera, RedHat and SuSE distributed > > from the GNOME site (ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/latest). > > Sadly, those packages are seldome updated, and there is not an ongoing > effort to keep them up to date. I tried to assemble such a team, in > the gnome-packaging-list, but that group never produced binaries.
The good solution would be to make Debian packaging rules snapshot-able, so that you can build packages with appropriate version numbers, package names and dependencies right out of CVS. Currently, a Debian package is a Debian package, and it is not trivial to make a package which looks different from the "official" package. The debian-snapshot list was created to aim at a solution, but nothing came out of it so far. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
