Hi Adam and Loïc, Thanks for your replies. Unfortunately, right around the time I opened the bug report http://bugs.debian.org/391309 I got frustrated ( porting g-a-i took more patience than I had :-D ) and I didn't work on it anymore. But see below.
2007/3/10, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd like to get gnome-app-install in Debian ASAP, preferably under pkg-gnome co-maintenance. I would like to benefit of your efforts to Debianize the Ubuntu package, but there were newer versions of the package in Ubuntu addressing some of your TODOs mentionned in #391309 (at least the Python policy stuff).
Maybe uupdate(1) (it's in apt somewhere) could help you merge all the stuff together? I don't know personally: I've never used uupdate myself.
Would you one of you two (or you two) be interested in being the official Debian maintainer(s) with the GNOME team as uploaders? Do you have time to prepare the package right now? I would like to import the package in pkg-gnome ASAP, perhaps starting with the Ubuntu version and merging any Debianization changes you did; if you're interested in maintaining this package, I can start with the import and give you commit rights to do the merging. Please let me know if you're not interested in maintaining the package; in all cases, I'm interested in any help to integrate the latest version of the package (0.3.26) with Debian.
I am not willing to prepare the package (would take me too much time) but if you are working on it and get stuck with a problem, or have general architectural questions, I am glad to help. Contact me by Jabber (jasonspiro at gmail.com), MSN, or email. Also, once the package works, if you don't want to maintain it, I can. (Notes: I am not a Debian Developer, and I no longer use Debian much; mostly Ubuntu instead. I still have a machine with etch installed though it only has 100MB or so of disk free. I am involved with emacs add-on development nowadays and haven't been spending any time on Debian stuff.) Adam, are you willing to package g-a-i? Loïc, do you know: are the pkg-gnome people willing to package it? Are you? By the way: here are my ideas for gnome-app-install: It sounds to me like it would be annoying to maintain a full set of patches on top of gnome-app-install that would apply to Debian. Maybe it's better if g-a-i did checks at runtime to see what OS it was running on and used different available-repository information and such based on that? Should you or I contact upstream g-a-i maintainers (g-a-i upstream is a bunch of Ubuntu developers AFAIK) and ask them if we could have commit rights so we could get that? Cheers, Jason P.S. Adam, I didn't get your reply: the BTS did not send me a CC of it. I don't know why. Do you know: is the BTS automatically supposed to send bug reporters copies of all replies to a bug report? If not, why not? -- Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile. I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses. Call or email for a FREE 5-minute consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed. +1 (416) 781-5938 / Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
