On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 07:01:23PM -0800, Vincent Cheng wrote:s/packaged/updated packaging/ :)
> Just a follow-up...I've found the upstream source for dbus-c++ (turns out I
> missed its git archive), and I've successfully packaged it. Note that it's
> NOT lintian clean at the moment. I have no idea about manpages because I
> don't know what the binaries in dbus-c++-dev do, and the previous maintainer
> didn't bother including man pages either, so I'm stuck.
>
When you say you have packaged something it means you have done from scratch.
Ok, so what about the following plan:
> https://github.com/Vincent-C/dbus-cplusplus
>
> Lintian output is in the README attached to that github repo. It's packaged
> with a QA upload in mind.
>
> Mr. Filoni, you would also have to adopt dbus-c++ and dbus-c++-dev if you
> still want to adopt Gnote. If you would still like to do so, please feel
> free to use my work; otherwise, I would just be as willing to adopt both
> gnote and these dbus packages. :)
- QA uploads of tnome and dbus-c++ to update it to the latest version (as
some users asked)
- Then work with usptream and maintainer from other distros in getting
the next version of gnote using a different D-Bus implementation.
Ana