On 26 May 2010 23:50, Ignace Mouzannar <mouzan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:10, Evan Dandrea <e...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Ignace Mouzannar <mouzan...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Excellent job. Howerver, it seems that the version 0.2.23 has not been >>> released by upstream yet. I prefer waiting for the new release before >>> trying to upload it to Debian. >> >> This is a native package. 0.2.23 will be released when it's uploaded :). > > I should at least be tagged as so in its bzr main branch, before being > released. Also, Dmitrijs told me this afternoon, that the plan was to > release the version on Debian, so that it would get synchronized to > Ubuntu. Is that right? >
Depends. For general uploads there are no reasons to not do that. If Ubuntu is close to different freezes/milestones there might be releases pushed to ubuntu e.g. 0.2.XXubuntuY but those would be hot-fixes for ubuntu something along the lines of 0day delay queue NMU. >>> As we will be maintaining this package for Debian, we will set >>> ourselves in the Maintainer and Uploaders fields. >> >> Is this necessary? I'm more than happy to add people to the >> usb-creator-hackers team. I'd really like to avoid having a delta >> between Debian and Ubuntu on this, if possible. > > Having different maintainers on Debian and Ubuntu is not an important > delta. Of course, it is helpful to have somebody from the team > co-maintaining the package in Debian. Also, I don't see the inconvenient > in keeping the Maintainer field as is (i.e. usb-creator Hackers Team) > and listing Dmitrijs and myself in the Uploaders list for the Debian > package. > >>> * .desktop files: >>> - I am not convinced that usb-creator's Desktop file should appear >>> in "System/Administration" as using it does not have an effect on the >>> local system. I'd rather put it in "Application/System tools". >>> What do you think about this? >> >> It has an effect on the devices attached to the local system. There >> are other applications in System->Administration that are similar in >> nature to usb-creator, such as GParted and Disk Utility (palimpsest). >> >> Does usb-creator not appear in the same menu as these two applications >> in Debian? You don't specify that something goes into the >> Administration menu in the XDG spec, but rather list a set of >> categories it falls under. So if you're seeing different behavior for >> similar programs, we might have the set of categories wrong. > > What I am trying to say, is that usb-creator is a sort of "USB-writer > application" more than a local system configuration application. For > instance, you do not need root privileges to run usb-creator; whereas Yes and no with respect to root privileges, depends on the PolicyKit setup on a particular machine. > GParted asks for the administrative password when launched from the > "System -> Administration" menu. Also, in Debian, "Disk Utility > (palimpsest)" appears in "Application/System tools": "User and groups" doesn't ask for the password when you launch it from "System -> Administration" and later depending on the requested task PolicyKit kicks in and might ask a password. > -----------------8<-------------------------8<----------------- > ~$ cat /usr/share/applications/palimpsest.desktop > [Desktop Entry] > Name=Disk Utility > (...) > Categories=GNOME;GTK;System; > -----------------8<-------------------------8<----------------- > > This is why, I would rather see the usb-creator's menu shortcut in > "Application/System tools". > I'm ok with implementing this as a Debian vendor modification ;-) > Cheers, > Ignace M > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimyqrmi2u6qwvt9sgdslb_xrnagw04fxqqkw...@mail.gmail.com
