On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 09:47 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > Thanks, will take care of these. Is there a script that checks for this? Script: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dex/census.git/tree/bin/check-package-list Output: http://deriv.debian.net/AIMS_Desktop/check-package-list http://deriv.debian.net/AIMS_Desktop/diff_source_packages > Indeed, that doesn't exist yet, but we intend to set up some form of a > blog later on. OK, cool. BTW, I don't see AIMS Desktop mentioned in the latest AIMS newsletter :) > We have lots of local Debian interest, but no debian-specific local > groups yet. I considered organising some sprints and release parties, > but I'm somewhat overloaded already and hesitant to take on anything > more, but if I get more of my high-priority tasks out of the way I would > really like to invest some time in organising our local community. Ok, fair enough. > Thanks, I got my visa and still need to book my flights, thanks for the > reminder :) Great :) > It went really well, some students have been running stretch since > January and the feedback has been positive. The biggest problem so far > is websites pointing to Launchpad.net PPAs (which don't support Debian). > Thankfully the majority of useful software is already in Debian, so this > isn't a huge problem but for some people, it can cause some frustration. Unfortunately Canonical isn't going to be adding Debian to their PPAs. > I run it on my personal machine, but I'm not sure it would be a good > default for AIMS Desktop since seeing links to bug reports might be > confusing to users who don't know what how-can-help is. I'll add a > section on the AIMS Desktop website on ways to contribute back, and > mention that there. Yeah, sounds good. I was mainly referring to AIMS Desktop developers running hcih, I would not expect end-users to do that :) > Thanks for all the pointers and all your work on debian-derivatives (and > sorry for my slacking involvement in it, but having been on this side of > the process is useful for learning more about that too!) Some more info about the census stuff is here: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Integration You can run the census anywhere, the only thing that can't be run anywhere is the patch generation, because that queries the Debian snapshot database and filesystem directly. I haven't found time to add support for using the snapshot API yet unfortunately. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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