Op Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:05:11 +0200 schreef Paul Boddie <p...@boddie.org.uk>:
> I just wondered about this because for some organisations it is > important to have libre GNU/Linux distributions available, and yet > the number of such distributions seems to have fluctuated over the > years, and their continued availability has been uncertain. It > probably isn't in anyone's best interests for things to continue like > this. While enthusiastic volunteers can always be persuaded to spend > their own time on it (for the "glory"), it just frustrates and > confuses people if those volunteers burn out, give up, and so on. And > I doubt that the FSF having to constantly evaluate new distributions > is a great use of their (volunteers') time. I guess they now have some influence on it, since they employ one of the libre distro maintainers (although in another role). Other than that, there are no easy answers. > I saw once again that Devuan has been trying to make derivative > distribution building easier: > > https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=551 > https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=549 The live cd docs will come in handy. Their packaging is similar to what we did for Ucclia. But it doesn't explain how upstream updates are processed. That was a manual process for Ucclia and thus a bottleneck. It also doesn't explain what to do when the upstream package is not in git. I suspect that would also need to be solved manually. The nice thing about Builder is that it requires little manual intervention once it's set up correctly. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
