On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:03:26PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> Don't know how interested Debian are in packaging ocamljava, but I've
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:39:24PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> I recently packaged Vincent Hanquez's ocaml-dbus in Fedora:
Thanks for this pointers of your Richard.
They makes 2 points coming to my mind:
1) what about creating a collaboration wiki page between Fedora and
Debian, we seem to be the 2 distributions most interested in
packaging OCaml stuff, I think it would be cool to just be able to
mutually check whether the other has a patch for a given problem or
not. Debian-side I think almost all information for collaboration
are available in the form of:
- the list of OCaml-related packages and all other information which
we already collect starting from
http://pkg-ocaml-maint.alioth.debian.org
- the fact the all (well, I hope) OCaml-related packages declare
their versioning repository. So, if you want to check whether we
have a patch or not you can just do "debcheckout pkgname".
Do you have anything like that in Fedora, would it make sense to
match package to package? Or, at least, can you point us^Wme to how
we can I quick and easily see all the patches you have made to a
given OCaml-related package and have a list of them?
2) I do think both of the software you have pointed us to are worth to
be available in Debian. Actually, in particular ocamljava has the
potential to boost the amount of libraries available for OCaml so it
would be a real pity not having it into Debian.
However, we usually do not package stuff just because it is cool, we
tend to prefer actual software users to maintain them in Debian; for
the simple reason that there is no guarantee a non-user will take
care of the package for even a near future (it happened several time
in the past the stuff in our repository got abandoned for this
reason).
So let me reword your question as: is anybody here interested in
packaging one of the two software you mention Debian-side? I
personally won't since I don't use ATM any of the two.
Cheers.
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