On Wednesday 05,May,2010 02:17 AM, Olivier Le Thanh Duong wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair ubuntu com> wrote: >> On Tuesday 04,May,2010 06:13 PM, Roberto C. Morano wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Firstly, I wanted to introduce myself. I'm currently working on the >>> development of Guadalinex [1] and we wanted to include PdfMod in our >>> distro. >>> >>> I'm taking the Debian packaging for Karmic from the package you, the >>> pdfmod-team [2] (as far as I know, at least Gabriel Burt is and rules >>> this list :), have hosted in your Launchpads ppa. >>> I have created a branch [3] for our changes to the "Debianization" >>> (which at the end, were minimal, just the changelog version) for Lucid, >>> and I wanted to relate it to pdfmod's project in LP, but I haven't find >>> any. >>> >>> So, before I created a project for pdfmod there, I wanted to ask you if >>> I should (giving you all the credits/powers, of course) or if you prefer >>> to create it yourself. >>> It would be used only to host the branches that contain the debian >>> packaging, just to have it versioned somewhere, having upstream apart >>> from this LP project. >>> >>> As I mentioned, I have only performed minor changes to control/changelog >>> files but the package is perfectly built using the latest upstream >>> version retrieved via "debian/watch", so my branch won't be any useful, >>> but anyway I wanted to have it related to the project just in the case >>> in the future we do some useful changes :] >> >> Well, hello there. I'm actually guilty for not being active enough in poking >> pdfmod lately, but I've my own reasons, exams, assignments and all. Regarding >> the packaging bit, actually Pdfmod bundles two libraries, i.e. pdf-sharp, and >> poppler-sharp. I've managed to get poppler-sharp autotoolized and released, so >> the next step would be to package both poppler-sharp and pdf-sharp. >> >> PdfSharp is the most nightmarish package I've ever considered packaging so far, >> so I hope you understand my hesitation/procrastination as I need to keep my >> sanity in check at least until this semester (hey I'm a student) is over. >> >> As for your other question about the bzr branch/project creation... if Gabriel >> has nothing to say against it, go ahead and create it. Also, add yourself to the >> team, and have either Gabriel or myself approve you. :-) >> > I'm not a debian packager but is there any reason not to have a > package directly in debian? that way it could just be sync to ubuntu > like other packages? That is exactly what I am aiming for, and what every Ubuntu/other downstream developer should aim for when creating new packages. -- Kind regards, Chow Loong Jin
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