On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 18:23 -0600, Israel wrote: > Hi, I am Israel, the main developer of ToriOS. Hi, welcome to the list :) > Jessie, ... is supported for a good length of time, thus providing an > LTS version of ToriOS. Speaking of LTS, you may want to take a look at Debian's LTS efforts: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS > We at ToriOS, are a rag-tag international band who all met through the > Lubuntu Community, and our love for helping others. Most of us are > still active participants on the Lubuntu mailing list, and continue to > help people who need assistance. Some of you might be interested in joining Debian's LXQt/LXDE teams: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/LXQtPackagingTeam > Sure thing, we only modify JWM, though since Samuel Henrique has began > maintaining JWM again after Jari Alto could not this is less needed, > though I still provide a more up-to-date version. > No other packages are directly modified. We add additional packages > through a PPA. So it sounds like you are modifying the jwm source package and rebuilding the binary package rather than modifying the binary package directly. I'll update the wiki page to be clearer. > A binary menu generator for JWM > A graphical settings manager (JWM Settings Manager) Have you talked to JWM upstream about these tools? > The only package we modify is JWM, and I have assisted Samuel in > updating this package to the current state in Debian Jessie. This > includes a revised control (adding SVG and jpeg support) and a more > simplified rules file, etc... Ok. > I was unaware of this. We directly use Debian and only add packages > from a PPA, and modify only JWM. After reading that it is unclear if I > should modify it, as Debian is the main vendor of packages, rather than > ToriOS It would be good if your installer system or any metapackages you have could set it up properly. There are a few different reasons for that, the main one is that popcon and reportbug record that information. > I am not sure if I have the time or funding to travel to Canada, as > ToriOS receives no monetary funds. Fair enough, if you ever get the chance it is a great experience. > Thank you, I have been following this in preparation, and have already > spoken with the project leader about this upcoming change. Excellent. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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