Bug#717532: (no subject)
Hi Boris,
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Boris Kolpackov
<boris@codesynthesis.com> wrote:
> I am the developer of ODB. Today I announced the availability
> of ODB packages for RHEL 5 and 6, as well as Fedora 19-21.
> While this is great news, what saddens me somewhat, as a Debian
> user myself, is that there are no such packages for Debian yet.
As far as I can remember, I've a package ready, but not yet uploaded.
> At the same time I believe it should now be very straightforward
> to package ODB for Debian. The system was designed from the grounds
> up to be packager-friendly (that's why it is split into multiple
> packages instead of being a one monolithic block).
Sure, can't remember any problems. When I arrive back home, will check it.
> Also, the packaging
> efforts first for Gentoo and then for EL/Fedora ironed out a lot of
> kinks. So if anyone is interested in packaging ODB for Debian, let
> us know (post to the odb-users mailing list).
It has a dependency on libcutl that Onur wanted to package. It was in
a good shape and I noted some issues to him, but didn't receive an
answer.
Onur, do you still working on it? May I continue with it, take over your ITP?
> I will personally
> assist you in any way I can, as I did in the past for the Gentoo
> and EL/Fedora packaging efforts.
Hope I'll be able to upload it soon. Will contact you if any problems arise.
Cheers,
Laszlo/GCS
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