Re: [pdfmod] pdfmod's Launchpad project

["Roberto C. Morano" <rcmorano emergya es>]

Chow Loong Jin escribió:
> 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.
>   

Yep, that would be the best way. I wish I could help there, but I can't 
be that active to maintain the package directly in Debian/Ubuntu.
I do work for a company that, for 6 months devels Guadalinex (and works 
in other localized distros aswell), but our job here is puntual and 
maybe not continued in next version by us. We've been developing 
Guadalinex since the very first versions, but that doesn't mean we will 
in the future hehe. And I definetely can't maintain packages in my spare 
time, so I just try to contribute with little helps to upstream and 
downstream when it's possible during the Guadalinex development :]


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