On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 19:59:36 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
I'd add here that you're talking about by far the most widely
used distro.
[…]
Isn't it worth someone from the LDC team discussing with the
Ubuntu people concerned (e.g. the person who decided to
blacklist the package) and try and get their feedback and
advice on packaging? My experience is that the Ubuntu team are
fairly friendly and helpful.
I don't doubt that distro packages are vital for providing a
smooth experience for Linux users. However, and this is
unfortunately a big "however", at the same time I don't think I
will be able to look into providing those packages myself any
time soon (besides for Arch, but that front is already covered;
big thanks to Sven/svenstaro!), simply because I'm happy if I
find enough time to look into any LDC issues whatsoever at all
right now.
Joseph, Russel, you seem to be both personally interested in
D/LDC and quite knowledgeable about Debian-style packaging. Might
I suggest that you think about joining the LDC forces as a
package maintainer? It certainly isn't a huge amount of work to
do, but many small items also add up…
Thanks,
David
