Re: Introducing DoudouLinux

[Jean-Michel Philippe <jean-michel.philippe@doudoulinux.org>]

Thank you Andreas for your detailed answer. We are now better 
understanding what “reviving Debian Jr” can mean :).

As I told to Paul in a private mail, DoudouLinux seems to have achieved 
many wishes of the Debian Jr. project. As we want to keep as closest as 
possible to Debian, it appears to me that our work will necessarily meet 
the job you are proposing to us to revive this project. We just need to 
change a bit our way to work. We also need to read the official 
documentation you pointed about pure blends to be sure to match the 
standards.

Of course I'll register the Jr mailing list as a start.

NB. Paul: pleased to see our project part of the derivatives.

Cheers,
JM.

> The most relevant place for a discussion would be the Debian Jr. list
> (in CC).  About "my" expectations:  The Debian Jr Blend is just 
> orphaned
> and nobody cares about it.  It needs somebody with some love who will
> revitalises this cute project.  The "expectation" is that this 
> somebody
> takes over the job to make it as useful as possible - so just turn it
> into what you consider the right way to make Debian fit for young
> children (and in the line of this make it most easy for your own 
> purpose
> to create the live CD).  So if packages might missing in Debian and 
> you
> might have builded these - offer these for sponsoring into main 
> Debian.
> If you have patches to packages which you consider useful - just do 
> not
> be shy and care about specific tagging magic - what might be good for
> you is most probably good for other Debian users.
>
> Regarding the metapackages approach you are probably well advised to
> read the Blends documentation at
>
>     http://blends.alioth.debian.org/blends/
>
> This somehow explains how you can easily build metapackages using 
> simple
> files which are just mentioning your needs.  These will be available 
> for
> any Debian user (also without the live CD) for an easy install.  When
> building the Live CD you can just use these metapackages.  There are
> some interesting features like checking the existence of packages and 
> so
> on which finally will give you an additional degree of freedom in 
> your
> live CD building business.
>
> Feel free to continue this discussion on Debian Jr list (I'm 
> subscribed
> there).
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>
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