Bug#391309: RFP: gnome-app-install - the easiest-to-use software installation tool available
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Jason Spiro a écrit :
> 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?
Hi,
For now I don't have much time to work on it, however I could give a few
help if needed.
Sorry!
Regards, Adam.
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