On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Neil M. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Anthony Bryan wrote:
>> unfortunately just aria2 & kget. I'd love to see Metalink Checker &
>> GGet in there too.
>>
>> what can we do to encourage packagers?
>>
>
> I just built a Debian/Ubuntu package for Metalink Checker.  I'm new to
> packaging this stuff so I'd appreciate any feedback from anyone that
> wants to give it a try.  Its really simple, just creates a single file
> called "metalink" in /usr/bin.  You can get it from sourceforge:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148879&package_id=252259
>
> Note that you need to be running Debian testing or unstable to have a
> compatible Python version.
>
> I'm hoping someone (perhaps an existing Debian maintainer) can pick up
> what I started and run with it.  Or I can figure out the Debian
> maintainer process if I have to.

that could be extremely useful if you became a Debian
maintainer...being able to have checker/gget packaged would be great.

I packaged metalink tools & gget for Fedora. libmetalink too, but
haven't submitted it yet.

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