Bug#391309: RFP: gnome-app-install - the easiest-to-use software installation tool available
Hi Adam and Loïc,
Thanks for your replies. Unfortunately, right around the time I
opened the bug report http://bugs.debian.org/391309 I got frustrated (
porting g-a-i took more patience than I had :-D ) and I didn't work on
it anymore. But see below.
2007/3/10, Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org> wrote:
I'd like to get gnome-app-install in Debian ASAP, preferably under
pkg-gnome co-maintenance. I would like to benefit of your efforts to
Debianize the Ubuntu package, but there were newer versions of the
package in Ubuntu addressing some of your TODOs mentionned in #391309
(at least the Python policy stuff).
Maybe uupdate(1) (it's in apt somewhere) could help you merge all the
stuff together? I don't know personally: I've never used uupdate
myself.
Would you one of you two (or you two) be interested in being the
official Debian maintainer(s) with the GNOME team as uploaders? Do you
have time to prepare the package right now?
I would like to import the package in pkg-gnome ASAP, perhaps starting
with the Ubuntu version and merging any Debianization changes you did;
if you're interested in maintaining this package, I can start with the
import and give you commit rights to do the merging.
Please let me know if you're not interested in maintaining the package;
in all cases, I'm interested in any help to integrate the latest
version of the package (0.3.26) with Debian.
I am not willing to prepare the package (would take me too much time)
but if you are working on it and get stuck with a problem, or have
general architectural questions, I am glad to help. Contact me by
Jabber (jasonspiro at gmail.com), MSN, or email. Also, once the
package works, if you don't want to maintain it, I can. (Notes: I am
not a Debian Developer, and I no longer use Debian much; mostly Ubuntu
instead. I still have a machine with etch installed though it only
has 100MB or so of disk free. I am involved with emacs add-on
development nowadays and haven't been spending any time on Debian
stuff.)
Adam, are you willing to package g-a-i?
Loïc, do you know: are the pkg-gnome people willing to package it? Are you?
By the way: here are my ideas for gnome-app-install:
It sounds to me like it would be annoying to maintain a full set of
patches on top of gnome-app-install that would apply to Debian. Maybe
it's better if g-a-i did checks at runtime to see what OS it was
running on and used different available-repository information and
such based on that? Should you or I contact upstream g-a-i
maintainers (g-a-i upstream is a bunch of Ubuntu developers AFAIK) and
ask them if we could have commit rights so we could get that?
Cheers,
Jason
P.S. Adam, I didn't get your reply: the BTS did not send me a CC of
it. I don't know why. Do you know: is the BTS automatically supposed
to send bug reporters copies of all replies to a bug report? If not,
why not?
--
Jason Spiro: computer consulting with a smile.
I also provide training and spyware removal services for homes and businesses.
Call or email for a FREE 5-minute consultation. Satisfaction guaranteed.
+1 (416) 781-5938 / Email: info@jspiro.com / MSN: jasonspiro@hotmail.com
Reply to: