Hi! I'm currently at a post-FOSDEM sprint, so I have less time - a detailed reply will follow :-)
2016-02-01 17:15 GMT+01:00 Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org>: > [Re-sending because it doesn't seem to have reached the bug, with links > added; sorry if you get this twice.] > > Hi, > I've been looking at ostree recently, with the intention of using it in > conjunction with xdg-app. David King and Alexander Larsson have made > some Ubuntu PPA packages, which don't necessarily have all the > integration that you had in mind, but they have the advantage of already > existing. Even if they can only deploy non-Debian distributions, that's > a good start. > > Would you mind if I tidy up those packages and get them into experimental? That sounds like a good plan! For OSTree I wanted to upload it when it is fully useful for its intended purpose in Debian, that is managing the base system with it. I'm obviously not yet there. I would have worked on xdg-app already, but it currently depends on the obsolete libgsystem, which I didn't want to (re)introduce in Debian, also I have a lot of work already - so thanks for working on this matter! I would like to help with it and co-maintain the package. Also talked with Alexander Larsson a bit about xdg-app on Debian this FOSDEM. Regarding packaging teams, I wonder whether it would make sense to start a new team and move related software under that umbrella. Specificallly, putting xdg-app, Limba, AppStream, appstream-glib and ostree together might make sense - right now,I am maintaining most of them in the pkg-packagekit Git repo. > Would you like to be a co-maintainer? Yes, definitely :-) Thank you for asking me! > Here is my work-in-progress and a blog post about it: > > https://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/2016/xdg-app/ > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/smcv/ostree.git Thanks, I hopefully have time to read this this evening. Greetings from Brussels! Matthias -- I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/
