[ Clint Byrum ] > Hi Eric, reading this bug report, its understandable why you might be reticent to continue fighting that good fight. I might be up for another round or two if there are others throwing their hats in. > 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: It looks like Digg's is based on Esteve Fernandez's work, mine was too, though I had made some forward progress. Not sure what the state of all these packages is now. FWIW, my latest (likely quite out of date) is here: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/eevans/thrift.git;a=summary > 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. I wouldn't do this, no. If anything, I think you'd want to try and find the sweetest spot, and then backport fixes and patch as needed. Actually, I'm hoping that it'll be possible to get some mileage out of the forthcoming 0.3.0 release. -- Eric Evans eevans@debian.org
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