Oh, I meant just 'build it against Debian'. Getting into actual Debian upstream is a feat for the infinitely patient.
B. On 13 Feb 2014, at 12:35, Andy Wenk <a...@nms.de> wrote: > On 13 February 2014 13:22, Dave Cottlehuber <d...@jsonified.com> wrote: > >> On 13 February 2014 11:17, Robert Samuel Newson <rnew...@apache.org> >> wrote: >>> Excellent work! How painful would a Debian build be? >>> >>> B. >> >> A better question would be "should this be updated by the debian >> packagers, or do we go the whole hog and roll our own debian repo?" >> >> I can't answer that myself. But given there's no upstart support in >> debian, I'm not sure we are significantly better off with our own one. >> What's the Right Thing To Do here? >> > > asfaik the Debian release process is really long ... the page here > > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=couchdb > > shows, that CouchDB 1.2 is stable and CouchDB 1.4 is testing. So how long > will it take to get 1.5 or even 1.6 into stable? Long! So I suggest to get > in touch with the maintainer and see what his thoughts are on the topic of > upgrading to a newer version. But I guess the process will still take very > long ... > > please correct me if I am wrong > > >>> On 13 Feb 2014, at 10:16, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Also, let's get this put on the website. >>>> >>>> On 13 February 2014 11:14, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: >>>>> Dave, are you up for doing a blog post? >> >> Done with Noah & Andy's eagle-eyed assistance - thanks! >> >> A+ >> Dave >> > > we have also added a link in the download section here: > http://couchdb.apache.org/#download > > Cheers > > Andy > -- > Andy Wenk > Hamburg - Germany > RockIt! > > http://www.couchdb-buch.de > http://www.pg-praxisbuch.de > > GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 > > https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
