On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 03:00:59PM +0200, Juan Jesús Ojeda Croissier wrote: > This software was created for a Debian-derived distribution > (Guadalinex). Maybe it's possible to change the packaging or compile > from the sources, but it wasn't the initial idea and it is not > supported by us. It is software for a Debian-derived distributions. > > Probably, if more distros (Debian, Ubuntu, LinEx, Molinux and others > Debian-derived distributions) start to use it and we see other distros > like to use it, we'll convert it into upstream project (maybe in > GNOME) and the package will be changed into non-native one.
> But by now > we can't assure that the code itself will work in another distro. We > haven't tried it, neither we have prepared it for supporting it. That's the distribution's problem, not yours - if it doesn't work, they won't distribute it. Native packages are (my quote marks) "conceptually only useful to Debian installations", not "will only run on Debian installations". > If you guys still see this as a non-native package, we'll change it, > but IMHO, at least right now, it is a native package. It's non-native. -- Jonathan Wiltshire PGP/GPG: 0xDB800B52 / 4216 F01F DCA9 21AC F3D3 A903 CA6B EA3E DB80 0B52 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
