On 17 Aug 2001 12:52:20 +0300, Yanko Kaneti wrote: > hello > > preparing for a galeon release we are faced with the following problem: > we need to depend on the newly released gconf 1.0.4, there are not many > well known places that already have a rpm/deb/(arbitrary packaging > format) for it, thus leading to the very unpleasant situation of users > flocking to the suport places asking "where do i get this from?, in a > package please" > > looks to me like the perfect option for the gpp to provide help to all > gnome projects, by providing plain packages for the latest releases of > all the projects in the gnome cvs, rh6 and rh7 rpms would be enough as a > start, unofficial debs would be also nice > > what is needed for this to become reality? As the debian galeon maintainer, i'm not all that worried here. I have an open line of communication with the debian gconf maintainer and probably if i ask him to hurry up with the new upstream because my package is going to require it, he'll have it out the door pretty quickly. Once he does this, I should be able to backport galeon packages to woody, potato, and progeny quickly and easily. As far as Debian is concerned, honestly I don't personally believe that full blown upstream integration of debian build systems is advantageous. Official debian maintainers are skilled and ussually work sufficiently quickly, and personally I think that if there are problems in these areas, I think that interested parties should endeavor to improve Debian (by becoming developers, maintaining packages, and helping other developers with their packages) rather than duplicating the effort completely by providing unofficial packages that may be of lower quality than official debian releases -- and in any case, the unofficial work will never make it into the hands of the many people who simply install a stable release of debian and update whenever a new stable version is released. That's my opinion, and i think many debian developers would have the same opinion, but i'm not sure :) -- Jared Johnson solomon futureks net GPG Key ID: DF 28 CD 64 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/C d+(-)>-- s:+ a18 C++++$ UL++++>$ P+>++++ L+++ E--- W+ N+ o? K- w--- !O M-- V-- !PS !PE Y PGP- t+ 5-- X R-- tv- b+ DI>+ !D G e>++(>+++) h-- r* y-(>+++) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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