Re: [pdfmod] pdfmod's Launchpad project

["Roberto C. Morano" <rcmorano emergya es>]

Chow Loong Jin escribió:
> On Tuesday 04,May,2010 06:13 PM, Roberto C. Morano wrote:
>   
> > Hello,
> >
> > Firstly, I wanted to introduce myself. I'm currently working on the
> > development of Guadalinex [1] and we wanted to include PdfMod in our
> > distro.
> >
> > I'm taking the Debian packaging for Karmic from the package you, the
> > pdfmod-team  [2] (as far as I know, at least Gabriel Burt is and rules
> > this list :), have hosted in your Launchpads ppa.
> > I have created a branch [3] for our changes to the "Debianization"
> > (which at the end, were minimal, just the changelog version) for Lucid,
> > and I wanted to relate it to pdfmod's project in LP, but I haven't find
> > any.
> >
> > So, before I created a project for pdfmod there, I wanted to ask you if
> > I should (giving you all the credits/powers, of course) or if you prefer
> > to create it yourself.
> > It would be used only to host the branches that contain the debian
> > packaging, just to have it versioned somewhere, having upstream apart
> > from this LP project.
> >
> > As I mentioned, I have only performed minor changes to control/changelog
> > files but the package is perfectly built using the latest upstream
> > version retrieved via "debian/watch", so my branch won't be any useful,
> > but anyway I wanted to have it related to the project just in the case
> > in the future we do some useful changes :]
> >     
>
> Well, hello there. I'm actually guilty for not being active enough in poking
> pdfmod lately, but I've my own reasons, exams, assignments and all. Regarding
> the packaging bit, actually Pdfmod bundles two libraries, i.e. pdf-sharp, and
> poppler-sharp. I've managed to get poppler-sharp autotoolized and released, so
> the next step would be to package both poppler-sharp and pdf-sharp.
>   

Hiya Chow. About those two libraries... I have been testing the package 
I've built and it seems to work just OK without them (at least, as 
explicit package depend).
The only build-depends I have added to the package to make it build 
successfully in Lucid are:

* gtk-sharp2
* libgconf2.0-cil-dev
* libhyena-cil-dev

As I've mentioned, I tested the packaged application (version 0.8.1) and 
it seems to work properly with just these packages added for building 
it. Just tell me if I'm missing something, I do not know the application 
well enough (do I even know it? :)).

> PdfSharp is the most nightmarish package I've ever considered packaging so far,
> so I hope you understand my hesitation/procrastination as I need to keep my
> sanity in check at least until this semester (hey I'm a student) is over.
>
> As for your other question about the bzr branch/project creation... if Gabriel
> has nothing to say against it, go ahead and create it. Also, add yourself to the
> team, and have either Gabriel or myself approve you. :-)
>   

Nice, so I'll create the project, give you the credits and powers and 
upload my branch there :]


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