Re: compiz-foo update
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 12:29:39PM +0100, sean finney wrote:
> hey folks,
>
> just sending an update to let folks know where things stand, in case you
> haven't been following my various updates on IRC. The re-debianization is
> almost entirely completed now, and most of the packages have already taken a
> pass through NEW when the interim packages were uploaded to experimental.
>
> there were some unforeseen delays with ftp-master being unavailable for almost
> a week, but things are progressing nicely now. what to expect in the
> immediate future:
>
> - resolving copyright issues causing libcompizconfig to get rejected from NEW.
>
> it was already accepted once, but it hit NEW again when we changed the -dev
> package name to not include the soname, and the second time through
> ftp-master was a bit more critical of the copyright documentation, so i'll
> need to fix that up.
>
> - uploading the prepared versions of the rest of the non-python packages
>
> all the other source packages are waiting for libcompizconfig to be accepted
> into unstable. once that happens it should simply be a matter of uploading
> them.
>
> - finish the python packages (libcompizconfig-python, ccsm)
>
> libcompizconfig-python builds, but i'm not sure i have the
> dh_python/dh_pycentral/whatever stuff figured out, or that it's building
> entirely correctly.
>
> all this and more can be found at the compiz status wiki page, which i'm
> making an effort to keep up to date:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/Compiz
>
> my plan is to resolve the copyright issues right now, and hopefully get it in
> unstable over the weekend. then i can upload everything else, and spend some
> free time after that (and into next week probably) on getting the python
> packages up to date.
Kick ass. Thanks for the update!
- David Nusinow
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