Re: debian-desktop, and relevant thoughts.

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 12:46:16PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> Le sam 13/09/2003 à 12:24, Sven Luther a écrit :
> > On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 12:10:31PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> > > Le sam 13/09/2003 à 10:26, Sven Luther a écrit :
> > > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:30:21PM -0400, James Strandboge wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 19:44, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Unfortunately, it is only for i386.  All the sources are there, ready to
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Yep, that is what i feared. That is really the problem with having
> > > > > > backports outside of the debian infrastructure, you only ever get x86.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > Well, it's all I have at the moment.  Someone did email me saying they
> > > > > were interested in compiling the backport on ppc-- but I never heard
> > > > > back.  Like I said, if anyone wants to step up, I'll take patches and
> > > > > could probably get it mirrored.
> > > > 
> > > > If need be, i would be happy to try to provide an autobuilder, and see
> > > > about the fixing problems as they occur.
> > > I would like to, yes.
> > > If it proves to be useful, I could then even provide such an autobuilder
> > > for x86 also.
> > 
> > Ok, for now i will do the builds on my ppc box, which is not online all
> > the time, but later on i will see if i can arrange a online autobuilder
> > or something such.
> I could also maybe have PPc machines at hand and make them available
> online, but those are pretty old machines (early PowerMacs) without much
> disk space.
> 
> > Could you send me the url where the sources are found, and do we have
> > some kind of mailing list or something such to coordinate stuff ?
> On James' backport mirrors.

Ok.

> There is not such ml for the moment, though I feel we should, and I can
> provide with one in minutes.

why not create an alioth project, and use the ressources available there ?
Including maybe the SVN server to old our changes needed to build or
something.

> We already worked on a policy too, but have still to comment it.
> Do you want a copy?

Yep, please.

Sven Luther