Peter, full ACK. Thanks for investigating this. We'll try to release BibleTime 1.7 ASAP.
mg Am Freitag 23 Januar 2009 16:54:22 schrieb Peter von Kaehne: > Dear All, > > As all of you know the Debian and Ubuntu packages are way out of date, > and are falling behind more and more. To a degree this is mitigated by > DomCox's packages, but in the end it hurts the project as it gives > exposre to old stuff. > > I have therefore tried to get to the bottom of this and how best to > resolve it. > > Dan Glassey who is on Sword mailing list is listed as the Debian > maintainer. Ubuntu lists him also as their maintainer, but that is > erroneous. A email from him to me stated that he is not the Ubuntu > maintainer and that he is under a lot of pressure hence unable to do > much wrt Debian either. Follow up emails have not resulted in responses, > so I guess the pressue is still on. > > Ubuntu gets it SWORD related packages via Debian as no one among > Ubuntu's own maintainers has taken up the challenge. A mail to the > ubuntu motu list has brought about a couple of volunteers from them, so > that might change. Should we acquire a Ubuntu MOTU maintainer, then we > would be able to feed up to date packages into Ubuntu - irrespective of > what happens in Debian. > > The current deadline for package freeze is 19th February (Ubuntu 9.04) > > Not sure if anyone can manage this.It would be nice though. There are a > fair number of volunteers there from their side. > > The alternative is to get them again updated into Debian and then see > them trickling down. > > That aside several points were raised in responses I got and I thought I > should share them here: > > 1) Diatheke - we should rebadge the CGI scripts as "examples" or remove > them due to the security issues associated with them. > > 2) libsword - one Ubuntu MOTU complained that we do not publish a > detailed list of API changes (vs general bug fixes) from version to > version. At least he could not find it. I guess this is a fair point. > > 3) dependencies - I think we need to do some work on convincing them > that our modules should be classified as e-books (and subsequently not > packaged) rather than as "updates" or "plugins" and hence packaged. > Otherwise they will continue to package bibles etc. > > 4) GUI module manager - one of the results of them packaging modules is > that our GUI module managers in BT and GS can not remove packages. A > suggestion raised (and a good one in my view) was that the package > manager could check if privileges for writing are there for a particular > location and if not seek authentication via + use sudo. In my view this > is desirable. > > I have bcc'ed my correspondents + volunteer aspirants among the Ubuntu > lot and hope that some will join this thread on the mailing list + we > can get the ball rolling again. > > Yours > > Peter > > > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
