Re: [pdfmod] pdfmod's Launchpad project

[Olivier Le Thanh Duong <olivier lethanh be>]

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?

> --
> Kind regards,
> Chow Loong Jin
>
>
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