Does it make sense for a separate "community" style distribution, such as DeMuDi (Debian Multimedia Distribution - see www.agnula.org)??
AGNULA is making a Red-Hat based (ReHMuDi) as well as the Debian based distribution. In my mind, at least before Fedora, it makes sense to have a "red hat based distro", so as to have an "open" development forum for the development of the distro. For Debian however, we already have that, so I don't understand why DeMuDi doesn't simply work with SID proper, and integrate themselves into the existing Debian development process... if someone can explain this to me, I'd be appreciative. As a point of reference, below is the README.WHATSNEXT file found at the Demudi download site, http://download.agnula.org/1.0/. I note the the last sentence asking "Any hint on how to best contribute to Debian should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]". (And for those interested, the reason I'm pursuing this is I'm trying to find qjackconnect packaged for Debian somewhere...). TIA Zenaan --- http://download.agnula.org/1.0/README.WHATSNEXT WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS What will happen after this release? Well, to put it shortly: - we are rewriting our build system, which is more or less a set of spaghetti code not too suited for quality control, collaboration, and all those goodies that help making a good distribution. Well, there is nothing like trying to build a distro to learn the do and don't of building a distro. :) The new build system will most probably be heavily based on Debian build daemon scripts. The planned date for deployment of the new build infrastructure is 15-20 August. If you want any information, don't hesitate to write us at [EMAIL PROTECTED], but please bear with any late reply: we will be very busy doing what we should answer about. - there are some packages which didn't make it into the 1.0 distribution that we absolutely want to put in the next release. Namely ardour and PlanetCCRMA software. Of course, if *you* would like to see any software inside AGNULA/DeMuDi, write us. Keep in mind that we can only (and only want to) package "free" software (free as in `free speech', not as in `free beer', of course). - we are evaluating switching from woody to sarge or to a precise snapshot of sid as the base system to build on. Woody is too old, and backporting packages to it has become really cumbersome - and tends to substract forces from our already scarcely sized team. - we are trying to understand how best we can contribute back to Debian. There are already some packages, made by us, which we are just waiting to polish a bit before uploading them to the Debian archive. Any hint on how to best contribute to Debian should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
