On Saturday 01 March 2003 23:12, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le Samedi 1 Mars 2003 16:53, Buchan Milne a écrit : > > On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > > I thought original club vocation was to port packages from cooker main > > > and contrib to current stable version. However, a quick look at the > > > MandrakeClub directory for 9.0 on mirrors shows they are actually many > > > packages there that are totally new: see enclosed list. > > > > Actually, both. If people in Mandrake Club request RPMs that are not > > currently packaged anywhere, a volunteer is supposed to package for > > Mandrake Club, have the requester/voters test it, and once he has some > > feedback, make it available for others, both via the "free" section > > (which goes to mandrake-devel mirrors) and hopefully to cooker contrib > > also(if applicable). > > Allowing to introduce package directly at club level is plainly stupid
??? > IMHO, and just contribute to global lack of coherency. Club people should > focus on porting, and forward new package request to contributers, so as to > keep one only package reference list, one only package policy, and one only > introduction procedure. > So you mean: - requested packages have to go to cooker first and then rebuild for club - packages that don't appear to be possible for cooker shouldn't be uploaded to club (wether it is requested or not) ??? Sorry I really don't understand what you mean, I guess I get it false. > > > I feel this is counter-intuitive, error-prone, and duplicated effort. > > > Are we supposed to port them in contrib now ? > > > > Preferably club-volunteers should do this, but feel free to jump in at > > this stage. I think Austin, Danny's and my packages are all in, plus > > Austin and I did most of thac's stuff. I will take a look at the list > > now. > > > > Porting to cooker has been mentioned on the club-volunteers list, but > > none of those with packages not in cooker replied. > > Not a big surprise, considering lack of relationship between those two > different communities. -- Regards Steffen ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
