Hello, I'm looking for a sponsor for uploading updated packages of scribus - the best Linux Desktop Publishing program. It's been orphaned by the maintainer and I submitted an ITP after 3 weeks of wait or so. Scribus is being very rapidly developed and offers features rivaling and in some places surpassing those of Adobe Pagemaker and Quark Xpress. It has professional DTP capability and definitely the best in linuxland PDF export. It'd be a shame not to keep it updated in our favorite distro.
The latest scribus version in unstable is 1.1.4. I've been maintaining a private repository for cvs builds for few weeks. Now that 1.1.5 is out and the development is forging ahead to 1.2.0 I'd like to get 1.2.0.cvs packages into unstable. If you'd like to sponsor this package please check it out of deb http://128.210.147.127/pub/scribus binary/ deb-src http://128.210.147.127/pub/scribus source/ There a couple of issues with the policy conformance. There is an image in "lib" hierarchy and for the plugins to work I had to set executable permissions on the libs. My goal at the moment is to produce a well-working package with minimal deviation from the package structure that the Debian developer that was maintaining scribus prior to this set up. I've updated the man page and the menu icon. Later on, I intend to bring the package in full compliance with debian policy/FHS, but it will require either changes in the upstream source that they are reluctant to make at the moment or, more likely, extensive patching on this side. Packages are signed. My pgp info is at http://www.tagancha.org/pgp Thank you, Oleksandr (Alex.) Moskalenko P.S.: package info from apt-cache show Package: scribus Version: 1.2.0.cvs20040219 Priority: optional Section: graphics Maintainer: Oleksandr Moskalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.8), libaudio2, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libcupsys2 (>= 1.1.19final-1), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.2.1), libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3.2-1), libice6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libjpeg62, liblcms1 (>= 1.08-1), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.5.0-4), libqt3c102-mt (>= 3:3.2.3), libsm6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.2-1), libtiff3g, libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxcursor1, libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxmu6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxrender1, libxt6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), python2.3 (>= 2.3), xlibmesa-gl | libgl1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), gs (>= 7.07) | gs-aladdin (>= 7.04) | gs-esp (>= 7.07) Recommends: xfonts-scalable | gsfonts-x11 Conflicts: scribuscvs Replaces: scribuscvs Architecture: i386 Filename: binary/scribus_1.2.0.cvs20040219_i386.deb Size: 2404046 Installed-Size: 7119 MD5sum: c3a16eb098a94f7e9cd06b91c16b3516 Description: a free software desktop publishing program Scribus is a free software layout program for GNU/Linux similar to a couple of proprietary programs from Adobe and Quark. . Unlike other programs Scribus uses only Type1 fonts of the X-Server. Therefore there is no fiddling around with installing extra fonts. For this reason the number of fonts is a little bit limited, but you can be sure that your monitor shows exactly the same as the printed output is. . Documentation for this package is currently available as a man page (1) or on-line at http://www.scribus.org.uk/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
