On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 03:08:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 03:45:28PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > I think building deb from snapshots of this experimental branch is a good > > idea, and it can be done in any place you see fit, BUT if a proprietary > > solution is used, the GNU project can't endorse those (e.g. we wouldn't > > link to them). I haven't followed the latest developments on which parts > > of Launchpad have been liberated. > > Launchpad is entirely free software now (contrary to an earlier plan you > may have heard of which involved holding back a couple of components; > that plan was later discarded). I haven't thought much about whether it > would be actively better for GRUB development, but I don't think there's > an ideological reason preventing it nowadays.
Thank you Colin for clarifiing this. Then I have no objection with endorsing binary packages built with this service. (A different question is whether we would consider them official; but this depends on whether they originate from an official source tree, not on which facility was used to build them) > I'd be overjoyed to make use of Bazaar for GRUB development; I use it > for as many Ubuntu projects as possible, and these days for most of my > personal projects too since it generally does a good job of not getting > in my way. It would be easiest to do so if the Debian source package > were maintained in it too, as a straightforward branch of the > appropriate upstream revision; that way, it would be possible to simply > 'bzr merge' changes. Slightly off-topic, but let's ignore that just this time ;-) Speaking as Debian maintainer, I have no objection to it. However, Felix would have to agree as well. I'm fine with staying with SVN in the Debian package too. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel