That is good to hear.

And I imagine that putting them up on the jsoftware site will also be a goal?

Thank you,

-- 
Raul


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:47 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are debian packages for j801  beta, putting them to official debian
> repos will be a final goal,    but not yet ready.
>
> www.jsoftware.com/download/jqt
> On Jan 15, 2014 9:26 AM, "Raul Miller" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if there is any work on doing a debian package for J?
>>
>> I do not see anything obvious at
>> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/ but that does not
>> necessarily mean anything.
>>
>> I used to be a debian developer (for that matter, I helped design the
>> packaging system and was on the technical committee for a time). I got
>> out because of a mix of severe lack of time due to "real life issues",
>> and because every time I stated doing something someone else would
>> jump in and release a version of what I was working on.
>>
>> I think things are quite a bit more locked down now. If I were to do
>> the debian submission process myself, I would probably need to
>> generate a new pgp key, and get it signed by people. But if there's no
>> activity on packaging J, it's not all that difficult to do.
>>
>> And another possibility might be to put together the package and let
>> someone else run it through the submission process.
>>
>> That said, there would also be the issue of what should be packaged.
>> Since any new package would be going into unstable, I imagine that a
>> j8 instance would be best? [Subject to change, after feedback from
>> people at debian, of course.]
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Raul
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