On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:04:24 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > > I was wondering why you don't package it yourself but after looking > > at it I think I know :) > Well, I was thinking about it, but as Upstream is also active within > Debian I contacted him first (via IRC, so no Cc on the bug-report -- > won't let that happen again). Oh, I didn't know that. Nice! > > Anyway, a preliminary package is available in the pkg-perl svn repo. > My bad. I found the following out just after I wrote the RFP: The > upstream author who is also maintainer of some Debian packages, also > works on packaging for it. (He told me on IRC.) Some beginning is > already in the git repo at http://code.stapelberg.de/git/X11-XCB/tree/debian > I send him some patches against his packaging which are needed to get > it to build at least (missing B-D, etc.) Ok. > > - (fun with missing parts in META.yml and half-baked POD) > > - a botched test > > - tests fail with xvfb and pass without only because most of them are > > skipped due to a missing connection to the xserver (in my > > cowbuilder chroot) > Hey, that sounds like more than Michael did on packaging. :) > Michael, Gregor: Please merge your packaging efforts! :-) Definitely! Michael, would you like to join the Debian Perl Group, so we can work together on the packaging? Info at http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/Welcome "My" package is in our svn repo at Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-perl/trunk/libx11-xcb-perl/ Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libx11-xcb-perl/ (Including two patches.) > > If you nevertheless feel like uploading, I suggest to target > > experimental for the time being. > I'll wait for Michael's first release anyway, but will continue to > test it then and when. Great. > BTW: I basically plan to use that as replacement for the buggy and > removed nawm (Not A Window Manager, http://packages.debian.org/nawm). Nice. > Sorry again for not updating this RFP earlier. No problem. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Neil Young: I Believe In You
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