On 28 February 2013 20:03, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbo...@axis.com> wrote: > Please Cc:, not subscribed to the debian-devel@lists.debian.org list. > > Hi there! Linus Torvalds is highly involved in this project :) > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Dirk Hohndel wrote: >> >> The problem is that our target audience are divers, not hackers. > > Agreed. > >> Someone who can build from those sources can just build from git > > Check. > >> But many people (even people running Linux) aren't comfortable building >> their own binaries. > > I wouldn't be that sure, but ok, check. > >> And for those I try to make their lives easier. > > Of course. Where do you get all that energy from? I'm impressed. > Really. > >> To me that means I need the Ubuntu packages - and those apparently can >> neatly be built with Launchpad (a couple of us are working on that right >> now). > > That's good. You say ubuntu, but how many ubuntu derivatives are there? > And who's ubuntu getting maintained packages from? > > Don't get me wrong. It's better with one alternative than no alternative > at all. > >> Debian? No non-hacker is running Debian, I guess :-) > > Not so. Both my wife and one of my dauthers (non-hackers, as you might > expect) are using debian ;) And they're happy with that too, AFAICT. > They got a choice and an offer they couldn't refuse, I guess. No support > at all, or all support they need. Hard to refuse ;) "Real men don't > click" (tm), I know, but they're not men, and definitely not hackers. > > Managed to get one debian maintainer involved, at some point, Cc:ed, but I > guess he can't live up to that honor we need so badly right now :( Yes, > I'm trying to provoke him. > >> So in reality it really is Ubuntu that I try to cover here. > > That's great. Sorry, I don't know if I can help much there but, by all > means, try me. > > In the meantime, I'll try to figure out some other way to get a debian > maintainer attracted. Attempting that right now. That'll make all debian > derivatives happier too. And that's the beauty of that. > > Are there more debian users and divers watching this list? > Could we join forces? Ideas? There might be things that could be > adjusted in the upstream source that may make distributions binaries > packiging more attractive and easier to maintain. I'm sure upstream will > try to accomodate. I think it's a shame for such a great distribution > (been using it for more than 15 years now) to miss such an opportunity. >
I have only one dive of a whole 8m deep, but I am ubuntu & debian developer and can upload this package to debian/ubuntu and a ppa. Is there any packaging done so far? Point me to it, if not just file Debian RFP and CC me on it. Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANBHLUgEP4tBNPRGAXXMaTgsumE=yYLU=fd=mtauwxdhfxo...@mail.gmail.com