Re: Packaging effort...

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On Monday 05 April 2004 19:15, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> ervin  writes:
> > kdebindings (work in progress by Dominique Devriese)
>
> As for my status: this is almost done.  Not included is a lot of
> non-functional code like dcopperl, xparts, dcopc, and qtsharp,
> korundum and qtruby ( for the last two, the situation is better in
> HEAD ).  I still need to look at qtobjc, but currently, it's also not
> included yet.
>
> Included are koala, qtjava, dcopjava, dcoppython, kjsembed, and
> smoke.
Good to hear this! I look forward to have working kdebindings package in 
Debian. Yay!
>
> I hope to add qtobjc in the short term, and pykde, pyqt ( hi simon :)
> ), and korundum and qtruby in the long term ( for KDE 3.3 or 4.0, that
> is ).
Even better. Now, this might have issues with existing pyqt packages in 
debian? Also, i heard (unconfirmed) that pykde was being worked on by PyQt 
maintainer... Are you in contact with him regarding this?
>
> > In my opinion, our policy should be to have our package available as
> > soon as possible in our repository, and then take the time to
> > migrate them in debian.
>
> I don't understand why this should be our policy.  What is the
> advantage of not adding stuff to the debian repository directly, if
> it is easily possible ?
It is not exactly easily possible. There are number of reasons we might  want 
to upload to our repository. Just one thing that's next to impossible to do 
right is to re-package stuff already in debian. We can't just hijack a 
package. That's no good and going to produce a lot of ill will. Also, there 
are no DD's i know of in kalyxo, getting a sponsor's not that easy (and 
slightly cumbersome) and we can get packages into tycho archive quite a bit 
faster. Also, we might want to do some testing and staging, with the added 
convenience of a central and full-featured archive (instead of lots of small 
personal repos here and there). Also, there was a talk of doing some 
backporting and releasing the branch, but that's a pipe dream so far, IMO.

OTOH uploading straight to debian has lot of benefits as well, not questioning 
that.
>
> > This migration will be only possible thanks to the debian developers
> > involved in Kalyxo. They'll be able to sponsor/proxy our Kalyxo
> > package into Debian.
>
> Hopefully yes.  I have my NM application pending as well, but this
> takes an annoyingly long time :(
Same here. I don't expect gaining DD status in less than 3-4 months. Maybe not 
even 6 or more. Hopefully before end of this year though :p.
>
> cheers
> domi

cheers,
    Peter
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