Bug#979067: getting pinta updated in Debian

2022-03-03 Thread Jo Shields
“source-build” is the project within Microsoft which aims to produce “upstream tarballs” in a sufficiently from-source form to satisfy FOSS distributions. Fedora has had dotnet for a while as a result, a collaboration between the source-build team in Utah and a distributed set of folks at Red Ha

Bug#979067: getting pinta updated in Debian

2022-03-03 Thread Mirco Bauer
Hello Stephen, Hello Jo! thanks for sharing your thoughts on the tricky dotnet package ecosystem which I can fully relate to. In the Debian Mono Group we discussed these many times on the available options how we can overcome these new packaging challenges. The problem indeed starts with a shift

Bug#979067: getting pinta updated in Debian

2022-03-03 Thread Mirco Bauer
Hello Mike, thanks for your interest in getting pinta updated in Debian. The other day I noticed as well that pinta is outdated in Debian and it does not look like there is a simple way forward, unfortunately. Pinta has moved to the dotnet runtime which is not packaged in Debian. Many years ago

Bug#979067: getting pinta updated in Debian

2022-03-03 Thread Stephen Shaw
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 12:47 PM Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Timotheus Pokorra dijo [Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 10:35:36PM +0100]: > > Hello Mike, > > > > I have some experience with Mono packaging in Fedora. > > I know of the dotnet SIG in Fedora. They made a massive effort, involving > > Microsoft employees

Bug#979067: getting pinta updated in Debian

2022-03-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Timotheus Pokorra dijo [Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 10:35:36PM +0100]: > Hello Mike, > > I have some experience with Mono packaging in Fedora. > I know of the dotnet SIG in Fedora. They made a massive effort, involving > Microsoft employees, to get dotnet core built according to the Fedora rules > (build

Bug#979067: getting pinta updated in Debian

2022-03-02 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello Mike, I have some experience with Mono packaging in Fedora. I know of the dotnet SIG in Fedora. They made a massive effort, involving Microsoft employees, to get dotnet core built according to the Fedora rules (build from source, not using external files, etc). https://fedoraproject.org