Bug#627362: [jitsi-dev] Re: Git for jitsi, native Debian package?
Hey Thomas,
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro> wrote:
> Emil Ivov:
>> Hey Thomas,
>>
>> Thanks for looking into this!
>>
>> We are of course interested in having Jitsi integrated in the Debian
>> repos. We are also aware of the problems that are caused by the way we
>> store our dependencies. (They were actually already raised on this list
>> by Daniel Zucchetto).
>>
>> Off the top of my head, the easiest way for us to fix this issue would
>> be to simply copy the source code zip/jar files in the Jitsi repo since
>> we need the libs packages in our binaries which would make their use
>> from within other libs quite tricky.
>>
>> Would this work?
>>
>> Emil
>
> Hi Emil,
>
> thank you for your interest. However I'm afraid I don't understand your last
> paragraph at all. Anyways, I won't be able to package jitsi alone, since I
> only have some experience with java packages but don't know to package C
> stuff.
Sure. I am not sure if you have already noticed but we do already
maintain fucntional debian packages that should be a good basis.
> In any case, there are some things that Jitsi should/could/must do itself to
> make a native package for Debian/Fedora/OpenSuse doable. I've opened jira
> issues for those and linked them from an umbrella issue:
>
> http://java.net/jira/browse/JITSI-996
Ouch ... that's something that we like to avoid [0].
We only enter issues once we've determined exactly what they are and
decided that we'll be fixing them at some point. I've closed the
issues and we'll reopen those that we agree on, if and when we do.
Right now we are still in the discussion stages of the debian
packaging. We'd first need to decide exactly what needs to be resolved
here and how we can do that.
As for the svn-to-git switch: as much as I appreciate git's
versatility, I am afraid a switch would require too much effort so
it's not in our foreseeable roadmap. Besides, I am not convinced all
developers would feel more comfortable with it than with SVN.
Cheers,
Emil
[0] http://www.jitsi.org/index.php/Development/BugsAndIssues
> We can continue to discuss the items separately in those issues.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
>
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