Re: RFC: removal of packaging directory

[Leo \"Costela\" Antunes]

I humbly support your opinion! :-)

About the CVS packages, do you think they're stable enough for me to
upload them (selectively, of course) to Debian?
If you think it's a good idea, I can start doing it regularly, when
you deem CVS to be stable and usable.

On 8/10/06, Pawel Kot <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At 0.6.13 release Leo Costela requested removal of debian/ dir from
> gnokii sources. After some thought and IRC discussions I'd like to
> remove all over packaging directory.
>
> Rationale: I don't think anyone builds packages using our scripts. And
> nobody maintains them: it often turns out that new release cannot be
> built with them. And also they seem not be portable. It's not possible
> to have one debian/ dir for all Debian-based distros. Also from what I
> can see Fedora, SUSE, PLD and other RPM-based distros also use
> different specs.
>
> Moreover the packages are mostly up to date in distros. Additionally
> Matthias Jahn is doing great job preparing CVS builds with
> Debian/Ubuntu packages. It would be cool if someone would do the same
> with FC or SUSE.
>
> Any cons?
>
> I plan to do the next release before the end of the month. On 30th
> August I go for rather long vacation to US. And I'd like to release
> 0.6.99 before that.
>
> take care,
> pkot
> --
> Pawel Kot
>
>
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