On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:06:28PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:03:26PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote: > > Don't know how interested Debian are in packaging ocamljava, but I've > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:39:24PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote: > > I recently packaged Vincent Hanquez's ocaml-dbus in Fedora: > > Thanks for this pointers of your Richard. > They makes 2 points coming to my mind: > > 1) what about creating a collaboration wiki page between Fedora and > Debian, we seem to be the 2 distributions most interested in > packaging OCaml stuff, I think it would be cool to just be able to > mutually check whether the other has a patch for a given problem or > not. Debian-side I think almost all information for collaboration > are available in the form of: > > - the list of OCaml-related packages and all other information which > we already collect starting from > http://pkg-ocaml-maint.alioth.debian.org > > - the fact the all (well, I hope) OCaml-related packages declare > their versioning repository. So, if you want to check whether we > have a patch or not you can just do "debcheckout pkgname". > > Do you have anything like that in Fedora, would it make sense to > match package to package? Or, at least, can you point us^Wme to how > we can I quick and easily see all the patches you have made to a > given OCaml-related package and have a list of them?
So you can see the list of packages in Fedora here: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/ For example, ocaml-dbus package is here: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/ocaml-dbus/ There are two branches for that particular RPM, F-8 (Fedora 8) and devel (the development branch which will eventually become Fedora 9). Going into devel, you can see the spec file and the patches I mentioned earlier: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/ocaml-dbus/devel/ The above only applies to packages which have actually been released in Fedora. Before that they sit around as "Review Requests" in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?product=Fedora&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=MODIFIED&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=review+request+ocaml&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc= I'm checking out pkg-ocaml-maint from alioth to get an equivalent view on Debian's state of development. I don't think a wiki page is worthwhile since we have full visibility of each others projects. > 2) I do think both of the software you have pointed us to are worth to > be available in Debian. Actually, in particular ocamljava has the > potential to boost the amount of libraries available for OCaml so it > would be a real pity not having it into Debian. > > However, we usually do not package stuff just because it is cool, we > tend to prefer actual software users to maintain them in Debian; for > the simple reason that there is no guarantee a non-user will take > care of the package for even a near future (it happened several time > in the past the stuff in our repository got abandoned for this > reason). > > So let me reword your question as: is anybody here interested in > packaging one of the two software you mention Debian-side? I > personally won't since I don't use ATM any of the two. I'm packaging ocamljava just because I want to play with it. I don't expect to have any serious use for it. But D-Bus support is really important to me. The virtual machine management program I'm developing (virt-ctrl here: http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-top--devel?mf=0f557147776f;path=/) will use zeroconf to autodiscover managed nodes on the local network. Under Linux, access to zeroconf is via Avahi / D-Bus. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
