On 1/1/19 12:57 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > Steve, > > It's nice to see you're willing to work on getting gnucash on launchpad. > > >From my point of view this is completely disconnected from what the gnucash > project itself does, so feel free to go about this as you like. > > On the other hand I'm not really sure I understand the bit about the debian > directory. From the GnuCash project's point of view this is not something to > add in the gnucash git repository as it's distribution/packaging specific. > You > could set up a separate repository for this if you like. The GnuCash project > currently maintains 3 like that as well: one each for packaging GnuCash on > Windows, MacOS or Flatpak. > > Lastly at this point I don't think we want to add yet another release target > as part of the primary release process. But you're most welcome to take this > on you and I appreciate your offer! > > Regards, > > Geert
Thanks Geert. As I said, I didn't want to step where I wasn't supposed to be! I'll check out the other repositories and see what I can do. > > Op maandag 31 december 2018 18:41:35 CET schreef Stephen M. Butler: >> Dev Team, >> >> So far, three folks have either used or inquired about using the debian >> package for 3.4. Marketing theory (no, I'm a software engineer by >> avocation) says that there are several more that would take advantage if >> it were more "supported". >> >> Here are my thoughts: >> >> 1. Both Ubuntu (Launchpad) and Debian request certain files in a >> ~/debian folder. Most of these appear to be copies of files the >> application already has. Perhaps a softlink could be put in the >> debian folder that points to the original so that changes in the >> original automatically show up in the folder. Does this work via git? >> 2. I'm willing to coordinate the effort to build that folder (I presume >> on the Master branch) but will need volunteers from more technical >> folks from time-to-time to handle some of the techy stuff. I know >> the devs are busy squashing bugs so this would have to take a back >> seat to that. >> 3. Building this folder might even be beneficial to the official >> packagers for the various distros. >> 4. One team for whom I did light testing, published a daily build (no >> longer daily as the software matured) for the adventurous. >> >> >> https://launchpad.net/~subsurface/+archive/ubuntu/subsurface-daily >> >> I would be willing to push the files up to Launchpad if the team sees >> value in perusing this. However, I don't want to step on anybodies toes >> if this would get in the way of the official release process for the >> various distros. And, if this got to the point of highly automated, >> perhaps the dev team would prefer to do the push themselves. >> >> --Steve > > > > -- Stephen M Butler, PMP, PSM stephen.m.butle...@gmail.com kg...@arrl.net 253-350-0166 ------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 8A25 9726 D439 758D D846 E5D4 282A 5477 0385 81D8
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