On Wednesday 05,May,2010 04:45 PM, Roberto C. Morano wrote: > Chow Loong Jin escribió: >> 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. >> > > Hiya Chow. About those two libraries... I have been testing the package > I've built and it seems to work just OK without them (at least, as > explicit package depend). > The only build-depends I have added to the package to make it build > successfully in Lucid are: > > * gtk-sharp2 > * libgconf2.0-cil-dev > * libhyena-cil-dev > > As I've mentioned, I tested the packaged application (version 0.8.1) and > it seems to work properly with just these packages added for building > it. Just tell me if I'm missing something, I do not know the application > well enough (do I even know it? :)). Yes, only those are needed, because pdf-sharp and poppler-sharp are both bundled within PdfMod's sources. The reason we can't upload packages just like that is that Debian is very bundling-abhorrent. > [...] -- Kind regards, Chow Loong Jin
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