Re: [Ekiga-list] About Ekiga deb packages

[Jason Galyon <jtgalyon gmail com>]

Eugen Dedu wrote:
> Jason Galyon wrote:
> > Mike Massonnet wrote:
> > > Le Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:05:50 +0200,
> > > Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr> a écrit :
> > >  
> > > > Build-deps, Deps, change version, remove a patch for SVN, use the 
> > > > new .tar.gz instead of svn, modify get-orig-source target accordingly,
> > > > add a man page for simpleopal, change version number to allow
> > > > automatic upgrade when debian official packages are available, and
> > > > the various checks that all is fine...
> > > >
> > > > They will be available this evening on snapshots Web page/repository.
> > > >     
> > >
> > > Sorry, I won't help out on these topics.
> > >
> > > Keep up the good work!
> > > Mike
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > I would be happy to help.
> >
> > Would you consider putting up the deb source files too?  Also, I use 
> > a PPA through Launchpad for Ubuntu packaging.  You just upload your 
> > deb source files and their build systems build them for various 
> > architectures.
> >
> > Have you considered using that?
>
> Hi,
>
> All the deb files are at http://snapshots.ekiga.net/snapshots/debian/
>
> Yannick already uses it for building ubuntu packages.  But you can 
> really help, look at
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ekiga/+bug/274085/comments/15
> > > > Yannick: Martin Pitt said that Ekiga 3.0 will only be accepted if 
> > > we get
> > > > a maintainer to take care of the expected bugs / regressions from 
> > > such a
> > > > release. Would you be able to do this? It sounds like there are a 
> > > number
> > > > of users willing to help with testing, and with an Ekiga developer 
> > > as a
> > > > maintainer, I believe this would satisfy the requirements for 
> > > inclusion
> > > > in Intrepid.
>
> What do you think?
I currently don't have the bandwidth for the responsibility to maintain 
the ubuntu packages.  I believe I would be doing a major disservice to 
the community due to the lag in response time to fixes and them being 
put into packages.  However, what I can do is throw together packages as 
fast as I can get to them and put them on my PPA at 
https://launchpad.net/~jtgalyon/+archive.

The question is whether this would genuinely help an official maintainer 
or would merely get in the way.

Thoughts?

Jason