[Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox-discuss Digest, Vol 19, Issue 7

[drbob@lunamutt.com (drbob)]

Jonas, 

I just wanted to say that getting accepted as a debian package is not easy.

Debian is/was the primary development platform for Retroshare. 
We have a debian build system, and try to release debian packages.

We've been trying to get Retroshare accepted since 2007, and we just got ignored.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2008/03/msg00964.html

Don't get me wrong, I've got a huge amount of respect for debian and the team...
I just reckon there are far too many potential packages vying for too few maintainers eyes.
(No, I don't have the energy or time to become a Debian maintainer myself)

At this point, we've given up on it ever happening, and just use launchpad to build Ubuntu packages. 
So Retroshare is easy to install on Windows, OSX, FreeBSD, ArchLinux & Ubuntu... but not debian.

Does that mean Retroshare cannot be part of Freedombox?

drBob.

PS. Actually our debian packager has gone AWOL - so no debian packages for V0.5.3 at the moment.


On 7 Feb 2012, at 23:09, freedombox-discuss-request at lists.alioth.debian.org wrote:

> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 17:19:33 +0100
> From: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
> To: freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox For Cloud Services
> Message-ID: <20120207161933.GE8548 at jones.dk>
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> 
> On 12-02-07 at 12:57pm, Josef Spillner wrote:
>> NubiSave is already available as a Debian package, although lacks 
>> testers and feedback from early adopters, and I would be happy about 
>> improved packaging and making it available from the main archive (with 
>> appropriate warnings until an extensive safety audit).
> 
> NB! "Available as a Debian package" is like "available as Freeware": 
> Nice for experiments but nothing more.
> 
> What is needed is "available officially in Debian" which is different 
> from being packaged as a .deb file - the Debian package format.
> 
> 
> Please as a minimum first step add the tool here: 
> http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud
> 
> Next please file an ITP or RFP bugreport in Debian.  More info here: 
> http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#l1
> 
> Then devote the time and learning experience to package the tool as a 
> Debian package, get it adopted officially into Debian, and maintain it 
> there.  Or alternatively persuade/pay others to do it for you.
> 
> ...and then include it with FreedomBox.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> - Jonas
> 
> -- 
> * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt
> * Tlf.: +45 40843136  Website: http://dr.jones.dk/
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