Re: [Debian-SP] [Fwd: Start of freshdebs project for backporting debian packages !!!]
Em 24 Jun 2003 23:25:12 -0300, Guilherme Barile <gui@prosoma.com.br> escreveu:
> Só para conhecimento de vocês (muitos já conhecem minha indignação sobre
> backports, pacotes velhos no woody e pacotes instáveis demais no sid)
Eu não sei como é que esse projeto pode ajudar no caso de 'pacotes
instáveis demais no sid', já que os pacotes backportados são os
mesmos do sid.
A única vantagem de ter backports é poder continuar usando o sistema
base do Debian, a mesma libc... menos mudanças... mas pra ser muito
sincero as experiências que tenho tido recentemente me fazem crer
que é melhor usar sid que usar um woody com backports...
Na verdade acho que o projeto freshdebs pode ajudar um pouco, mas
o ideal mesmo seria gastar esse tempo/esforço fazendo o sarge ser
lançado =P
Podemos continuar a discussão na debian-devel-portuguese? Acho que ela
é a lista certa pra isso =)
[]s!
>
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> From: AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas <mantas@akl.lt>
> To: Guilherme Barile <gui@prosoma.com.br>
> Subject: Start of freshdebs project for backporting debian packages !!!
> Date: 25 Jun 2003 03:31:27 +0300
>
> Hi,
>
> I send to you this message about a week before but didn't got an answer
> :(
> Did you got my message ?n
>
> ---------------------------My Message-;-)------------------------
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing to you with big delay again :(
> This is because of http://files.akl.lt/~mantas ;)
>
> I also have other good news: debian packages backport project - freshdebs in
> online ;)
>
> Look at http://files.akl.lt/freshdebs/
>
> There is list of maintainers, who maintain lots of backported packages with URL (lines to be added to sources.list) - gnome, kde, mozilla (and browsers that depend on mozilla), openoffice, evolution, games, Java, X-Window-System, etc. - hundreds (or maybe thousands) of packages.
>
> Now you can simply install debian woody, then add some sources to
> sources.list and simply install what you want - you got a *working*
> desktop system with new sofware, usually newer than Mandrake, Redhat
> and others.
>
> It seems, that situation in Debian testing (sarge) is better - now lots
> of gnome packages are already in testing :) I think packages for debian
> testing can be backported too, but in lithuania nobody uses testing -
> some uses stable + lots of backports and other uses unstable.
>
> Some people from lithuanian debian community already works in freshdebs
> project. I think now we can invite to join our friends from Brazilia,
> right ? ;)
>
> We need help with webpage and also someone should invite "official"
> backporters of big packages (like OpenOffice or KDE) to join to our project.
>
> I think we should make an IRC meet, I think you should be on debian-br
> channel, right ? What is your IRC nick ? Maybe you friend from Curitiba,
> Brazil which is working on "easydebian" uses IRC too ?
>
> Btw, maybe you are using some instant messaging system like jabber or
> ICQ ? Tell me yours jabber ID or ICQ number.
> My Jabber ID is like my email - mantas@akl.lt and my ICQ number is 44451746
>
> Good luck,
> Mantas
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:17:44AM -0300, Guilherme Barile wrote:
> > Mantas :) long time no see :)
> >
> > I'm really disappointed with debian and the community relating to
> > desktop linux.
> > I'm currently migrating some windows machines to linux, and, obviously,
> > debian was my first choice, but then, I found the following problems, or
> > I used woody, with plenty of old stuff, or sid, which is too unstable
> > for lame users.
> > Another option was backporting everything we needed, but it would
> > require extra time which I'm not having lately. Solution: Downloaded
> > Mandrake.
> > I know it is a shame, but it's done and it works, I wouldn't need to
> > compile anything, and anyone could use the computer with hacking any
> > conf file.
> >
> > My real desire would be to have a nice desktop-oriented debian, I think
> > the "testing" distribution is abandoned, and the main idea would be
> > - stable is really stable (for servers)
> > - testing has all the things developers think are stable (gnome 2.2, kde
> > 3.1)
> > - unstable has all the dev stuff (apache2, mozilla1.4)
> >
> > Unfortunatelly, debian developers don't think this way (i talked to some
> > people in the brazilian debian community, and they really think
> > everything's nice the way it is and only sid users should have a nice
> > desktop. The only option left was creating a community to backport
> > everything needed and create a single repository for everything (a
> > parallel debian distro), as it is frustating to access www.apt-get.org
> > and see that 3 or 4 people are backporting openoffice on different
> > repositories. Again, I didn't find anyone to help me, so, I'm pretty
> > disappointed with debian this way. Will keep it running on the servers
> > though, as servers need stability.
> >
> > Do you have any contacts on the lithuanian debian community ? If we can
> > convince the world to make testing a usable branch, all our problems
> > would be solved. All we need is someone from the inside that thinks it's
> > a nice idea.
> >
> > I can put up a site to list all the packages available on this "parallel
> > debian", it's simple as parsing the Packages.gz file, but I think we
> > must first find people to backport the packages (a nice desktop distro
> > should have, at least, gnome, kde, mozilla (and browsers that depend on
> > mozilla), openoffice, evolution. Hundreds of packages.
> > In other words, I agree to help, if its done in a clean, organized way,
> > as it is on debian... There's a friend of mine from Curitiba, Brazil
> > which is working on "easydebian", something like knoppix that can be
> > installed. He has a nice installer already.
> >
> > Tell me your thoughts, maybe someday I'd be able to use debian on my
> > workstations :)
> >
> > On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 05:29, AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas wrote:
> > > Sorry for such a late answer. I had a wedding and because of this couldn't
> > > find time for us ;) How are you doing ?
> > > I hope you still remmember me ;)
> > >
> > > On Feb 20 Guilherme Barile <gui@prosoma.com.br> wrote:
> > > >I'll work on a simple database and a site on this weekend. Thanks for
> > > >the lithuanian mirror :)
> > > >Hope to finish that webpage on this weekend :) Can you think of
> > > >a name for the new distro ?
> > >
> > > Have you finished the website for backported debian packages with some form so people can ask for new backports ?
> > >
> > > Some GNOME 2.x packages are backported by James Strandboge and they are at http://mirror.raw.no/gnome2.2 and mirrored at
> > > http://files.akl.lt/debian-linux/GNOME/woody/gnome2.2/
> > >
> > > But this is not enough - for example I backported mc, configure-debian, some games for kids - see http://files.akl.lt/debian-linux/misc_packages/stable/
> > >
> > > Also I'm planing to backport lots of games and some other packages, also
> > > my friends from Lithuania can maintain some backports, so
> > > your website would be very useful for us.
>
> --
> Mantas Kriauinas <mantas@akl.lt> Jabber ID: mantas@akl.lt
> Public organization "Open Source for Lithuania" - www.akl.lt
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