Bug#524135: 2 more eyeballs and 2 more hands willing to help

[Clint Byrum <clint@fewbar.com>]

Hi Eric, reading this bug report, its understandable why you might be reticent to continue fighting that good fight.

I'm interested in packaging thrift for Ubuntu's next release (10.10) and hopefully also for Debian.

Does your work parallel Digg's packaging of thrift, which seems to be workable, and may provide a decent starting point:

http://mirrors.digg.com/digg/pool/main/t/thrift/

We're tracking this as part of a blueprint for Ubuntu 10.10 here:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-maverick-cloud-datastores

Also, does it make sense that given the incompatible nature of some of the snapshots, we might build multiple packages that are named based on their snapshot, and a virtual package 'thrift' pointing to the latest stable release? This would allow packagers to specifically target a compatible snapshot package for their particular needs without pinning the system to one version.