Re: [internal-projects] [Debian-multimedia] Start an official internal project!
>>>>> "rh" == Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
rh> Le Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:28:45PM -0400,
rh> andrea.glorioso@centrotemporeale.it écrivait:
>> For "pure" Debian packages I intend packages which are made and
>> part of Debian. I can of course make a .deb out of any
>> software, but that doesn't make it automatically part of
>> Debian. For example, what about
rh> You're thinking as if you were outside of Debian. I'm teaching
rh> how to think when you're within Debian ... :-)
I'll try to be as direct as possible given my position: *I* personally
like Debian and sincerely your attitude is convincing to try becoming
a Debian Developer. However, inside AGNULA, there are some
considerations which make me think twice before becoming an official
debian developer - mainly that amongst the partners there is also Red
Hat France. Did I say "diplomacy"?
rh> Sure, but helix packages had big upstream changes ... and here
rh> we're not talking about redoing other packages from scratch
rh> but just enhancing existing debian packages and provide new
rh> packages when they are missing.
Right.
rh> The demudi specific forked packages are the _exceptions_.
Yep.
rh> I think it's best choice even if it's not always that easy to
rh> do ... build dependencies regularly need to be tweaked for
rh> recompile. I'm considering proposing a change to debian policy
rh> to ease the recompile by having several separate set of build
rh> dependencies.
Have you already something in mind? As I'm interested in the issues
of software engineering, automated building and conflict resolution I
would like to help you if I can.
rh> I don't see why it would be a problem ... but anyway, if a
rh> subproject can't release together with Debian it's not a big
rh> problem. I mean DebianJunior is there for several years and I
rh> don't know of any official release yet ... :-)
I need to discuss about this together with the AGNULA team. You are
tempting me, but for now I think that two separate projects -
debian-multimedia, tightly linked with Debian but officially separate
from AGNULA, and AGNULA which takes care of releases and everything
else (PR, Web site, documentation, etc, etc) would be better for now.
bye,
andrea
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Andrea Glorioso andrea.glorioso@centrotemporeale.it
Centro Tempo Reale http://www.centrotemporeale.it/
AGNULA/DeMuDi Technical Manager http://www.[demudi|agnula].org/
"There's no free expression without control on the tools you use"
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