On 26 mai 2003, Per Olofsson told this: > Xavier Maillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 25 mai 2003, Per Olofsson uttered the following: > > > > [...] > > > > Ah ? I am quite curious on where did you get this package :) > > Actually I have reported a bug against lua packager to ask wether > > something was planned to release a lua5 debian package and AFAIK, > > there is none yet. Maybe, you, as a Debian developer, have pointers > > to get an "unofficial" one ? If this is the case, can you give me > > this pointer then ? :)
> > > - Use -llua50 and -llualib50 and /usr/include/lua50 since that's > > > what the Debian Lua package uses. [...] > The lua40 package maintainer made pre-release packages and announced > it on debian-devel: > > deb http://users.pepperfish.org/dsilvers/lua-5.0/apt/ ./ > deb-src http://users.pepperfish.org/dsilvers/lua-5.0/apt/ ./ Wow ! Nice :) So now I can install the latest snapshot release of ION ! That sounds great ! I am impatient (actually I am answering from my job place) :) > > > - debian directory added. Obviously. > > > > eh eh :). Why not include it by default in the upstream sources ? > > Tuomo, any reason ? > > It means extra work, and I think Tuomo has more important things to > do. Sure, but IMO this is not hard task to achieve, indeed. I may be wrong ;) [...] > > I must admit, here, that this naming convention got confused > > numeros people on debian-french-user ML. And I also must admit, I > > was too at first. Now that I know, there is no problem, but for new > > people wanting to install ION, this is a problem since, according > > to them, x-devel package are normally deserving developement > > oriented libraries. In otherwords, this is normally reserved for > > people wanting to use devel libraries for hacking purpose. I think, > > a better name would be to use the same naming convention than > > mozilla or galeon. That's to say, using ion for the stable version > > and ion-snapshot for the "unstable" one. Any opinion on that ? (No > > flame of course). > > ion-snapshot is bad because it sounds like a CVS snapshot, which it > isn't. The ion-devel tarballs are development releases, not > snapshots. The -dev suffix is normally used in Debian to detonate > development packages, not -devel. A quick search in the Debian > archive yields five -devel packages: kde-devel, gnome-core-devel, > dpsyco-devel, apcupsd-devel and ion-devel. The first three are > packages with development files while the last two are development > branches. Agreed, there are already three -devel packages with a > different meaning but that's not very many considering total amount > of packages in the archive. Almost all development file packages are > named -dev. If you can think of a better name for the ion-devel > package, please tell me. I don't :) zeDek -- Heh. How about this one: "make UNIX usable for normal people". Nobody has done that before. Linus
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