Re: Debian-NP and CDD talk in Firenze

|| On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:51:58 -0500
|| Micah Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: 

ma> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> || On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:54:45 +0200
>> || Enrico Zini <zinie-iEixELS/[email protected]> wrote: 
>> 
ez> How about a package debian-np-devel that depends on CDD tools,
ez> debpartial-mirror and whatnot, and includes documentation about how we
ez> evaluated and selected packages, experience reports, best practices, CD
ez> building howtos, tips on how to indentify your needs, web links,
ez> contacts of people actively working in building new and interesting
ez> software, directory of what NGOs did what and how, and how to contact
ez> them to ask how it goes; gathers bugs and wishes in the BTS (possibly we
ez> could say "if you don't know where to report your bug, report it to
ez> debian-np, and we take care of triaging and reassigning it"), and so on?
>> 
>> I and Zufus are working to build a good structure to make
>> CDDs. Currently we are working in next version of debpartial-mirror
>> and then we will start to write a tool to use it and make CDs.
>> 
>> The tool will be mostly like current debian-np-cdtool but a lot better
>> and generic.

ma> This is great! But his shouldn't stop us from creating debian-np-devel
ma> package since it only would depend on debpartial-mirror, so as that
ma> gets updated, so will the dependency, no?

More or less since what we are doing will change how to do all later
;-) ... this will be a lot easier :-)

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