Hello, On 11/03/2011 09:06 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Mark Longair > <mark-debianli...@longair.net> wrote: > [...] > >> Unfortunately, I believe that my current approach to creating >> the Fiji Debian packages is the wrong one, and it might be worth >> taking a paragraph or two to explain why. [complicated bits skipped]
My first reflex was to invite you to our Sprint in Southport next January http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/Meeting/Southport2012 which alone for its FPGA introduction you may like. I was very happy about your proposal to start a rearrangement of Fiji that is DFSG compliant. In parallel to that, I would like to discuss the possibility to upload more or less what you have with the non-free section of Debian. For the end user this may be easier since they won't be suprised of any feature gap. And for the developers it may be easier, too, since the DFSGisation can be performed incrementally. Concering the ever-broken version-dependencies to external tools, this will be of less concern when the release of Debian is frozen. One could for instance argue that Fiji would be installed properly only through backports.debian.org, with respective dependencies always being updated as they are needed through backports, too. When there are too many packages in Debian you depend on, it all becomes a bit tedious, but assuming you "know" quite a number of maintainers of those packages, then I can imagine those maintainers to update to a particular version you need just because you asked them. But also your co-developers should have some discipline to not juggle with dependencies too much. I think I opt for using non-free and ask for a Debian community support to bring it to main. Such tasks are great imo to attract new developers to the distribution: solid functionality, clear problem. Best, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4eb3e5f1.1050...@gmx.de