Hi Jeremy,
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:11:15PM -0400, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> > as I may have already mentioned, I want to package Conkeror for
> > Debian. Since XULRunner 1.9 is now in Debian Experimental on more than
> > a few architectures, I now started with packaging.
>
> Great. Although Conkeror is quite easy to install even now without a
> package (and having the git repository around makes it easier to
> update),
Yeah, especially if you have such a step by step howto for the git
usage.
The disadvantage of a repository instead of packaged releases is that
you don't know if you just downloaded something stable (like an
release) or something broken with just a bunch of really new and cool
but buggy features committed into the repository. (Yeah, I know, it's
alpha software, just philosophing... ;-)
But anyway, that's now partially my job, at least for Debian. ;-)
> given that it doesn't really require compilation (except the
> tiny spawn-process-helper.c program),
Hmmm, haven't had to compile that one yet. Works without. Or is there
a binary in the repository that works on 64 bit Linux out of the box?
:-)
> packaging it in Debian might provide more exposure and introduce
> more users to it.
I hope so. :-)
> > Neither from the website nor from the source, its clear, who is the
> > author(s) of conkeror and under which license it's published.
>
> I updated the repository to include a top-level COPYING file that
> specifies the license, and added copyright information to each file.
> Additionally, I moved the content/contributors file to CREDITS and
> updated it significantly.
Hey, that's perfect! Will immediately fetch the new version from the
repo and work further on the package. Thanks!
Regards, Axel
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Axel Beckert - [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://noone.org/abe/
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