Hi Jan, and everyone else following this bugreport, On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:14:10PM +0200, Jan Beyer wrote:
I tried building chandler in a clean pbuilder chroot, but without luck (I think, I used a copy of OSA's jaunty-debian/-directory with some modifications). The precompiled binary .debs from their website didn't work either - at least not straight away. I had to un-ar, edit the control file and re-ar the .deb.So I would be extremely happy about a real Debian package of chandler. From a quick look around the web and the package, I understand, it's highly non-trivial. So I wanted to ask, if there could be some kind of coordination-wiki-page where all the ToDo-stuff could be collected and possibly interested people with some spare time (e.g. me) could select some part and contribute a small piece, so that at some later time, we finally would arrive at a reasonable Debian package. Apart from the file debian/TODO in OSA's debian sources I didn't find anything like this. From this bug report I see, you wanted to push it to collab-maint, but it's not there (yet?). Or do you think, the build system is too crazy at its current stage, and the development should be continued upstream a little bit longer?Anyway - some sort of status update would be great...
First of all: Thanks a lot for pushing!Back in... whoa, is it really that long ago? december 2008, it seems, I indeed felt that the upstream coding was too weird for proper packaging - the packaging done upstream was done through pulling in precompiled binaries via Subversion, if I recall correctly, which is inappropriate (to put it mildly) for official Debian packaging. That said, the actual code looks looks really promising to me - it is just their way of stuffing surrounding libraries together that is quite unusual and far from usable to Debian.
I thought I had pushed my work back then to a Git in collab-maint, but you are right, I didn't. In fact I haven't even kept my work in a local Git :-/
Thanks a lot for the suggestion on chopping this big challenge into smaller pieces. I will now dust off the the work I've done so far and put it into a Git for collab-maint as intended, and will appreciate any and all help in moving on with this - including poking me whenever I get too silent on this front for too long.
Kind regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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