On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 08:29 -0800, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> Gutsy is the current release of Ubuntu, right? Is it possible to provide
> packages for that system at least?
If Hardy does not have the necessary dependencies, then Gutsy won't have
them either.
> If not, no big deal - but I just want to be clear that packages built for
> the latest actual release of Ubuntu would be more useful than packages
> built for a future release.
You will have to backport and build them yourself, or file bugs in
Launchpad to persuade someone else to do it. You could start by
backporting libflickrnet2.1.5-cil - I don't think that many dependencies
have actually changed.
It is more useful in the long term for you to prepare for Hardy. Hardy
will be out in just a few months, and is an LTS release - so I'd prefer
to see stable f-spot packages by then. This requires:
1. Fixing the showstopper bugs in the Debian unstable packages (I'm
hoping to fix the extensions problems this weekend).
2. Talking nicely to the relevant Ubuntu maintainer to get the
fixed version of f-spot uploaded before any version freezes.
The packages proposed by Roland are going to be including quite a few
random patches from Bugzilla and SVN trunk, as I understand it. It would
be helpful if you could test them, because I'd like to include some of
these patches in the Debian packages, where appropriate. These will then
also go into Ubuntu.
--
Tim Retout <tim retout co uk>
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