Thanks guys :)
If there's still any doubt, Ubuntu packaging as as different from Debian as Mandriva or SUSE are from Red Hat. It's theoretically possible to produce packages that work for both but it's a pain to maintain.
Scott can keep doing Ubuntu packages because he's well set up for it. I will be taking over only the Debian packaging. Don't think of it as inefficient use of resources; think of it as distributing the load.
Yay :)
2008/11/10 Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org
Ubuntu packages have been up to date (uploaded within a day of release).
Debian keeps falling behind because there's no easy way for me to build and test on Debian (with Ubuntu I can just upload them to launchpad and have it work).
Thanks, Scott Ritchie
Andrew Fenn wrote:
So your plan is to take over Debian packaging while abandoning Ubuntu packaging?
You already mentioned he has abandoned packaging (however I see new packages created on 8th November) Is there some technical reason you can't do Ubuntu Debs?
I am trying to understand what is different from Ubuntu and Debian which would prevent you making a package for both.
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Ben Klein shacklein@gmail.com wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm a regular volunteer in the #winehq IRC channel (man_in_shack). Some
of
you may know me :) I also maintain a few applications on AppDB and have
had
a couple of bugs found and fixed via bugzilla posts.
I've been building Wine packages for my Debian systems for a while and
now
I've written myself some helper scripts to make the task trivial :) I
build
both amd64 and i386 packages.
I'd like to request that I take over Scott Ritchie's position as
maintainer
for the winehq Debian packages as he seems to have all but abandoned
Debian
package building. I have the following caveats:
- I don't have a suitable place to upload the packages (in terms of
bandwidth restrictions) 2) At the moment, I'm not sure if the packages are suitable for an apt repository, as I don't have proper Changelogs or source packages. I'm
not
entirely sure what I'd need to do for this, so help would be appreciated 3) I'm fully set up to produce etch packages (Scott's packages aren't etch-compatible any more) as well as packages for lenny and sid 4) I'm not asking to take over Ubuntu package building (Scott seems to
be
good at this, and I don't have nor want an Ubuntu system) 5) I can be *very* quick to produce packages, as in the day after
release
(or even building packages from non-release revisions in git if
required)
Involvement in wine is fun!
Regards,
Ben Klein