Yes, alive and kicking. I'm still willing to adopt it. Maybe you can give me some hints resp. thoughts about what you wanted to fix and I'll try to get one together until next week. There are some Python application packages in Debian, so I will try to keep to their structure.On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 08:12:22PM -0400, Kirill Lapshin wrote:
Hello,
What is the status of debian package for Eric? Any unofficial packages out there? If nobody maintaining such a package, maybe someone has tools/instructions for creating one? Thanks.
There's a package but I have no interest so far to maintain it officialy, just because I don't use it any often (not that I don't like it, it's a nice piece of software). You can get it from my repo at people.debian.org, the package's name is "eric3".
I sent the source package to a volunteer willing to maintain it some months ago, but no answer so far (a case of RLS[1], I supposse). Then I sent it to another one some weeks ago. Same result. There's a third one (Torsten Marek) that have showed some interest on it, so I think it's safe to say that he can take over the package the moment he wants to. Torsten? You there?
Just one question that comes to my mind. As far as I remember, eric3 byte-compiles its files on installation. Should the installation script be patched or bypassed completely, because byte-compilation is done by dh_python (and on Python upgrade, too)? There is also a Python policy, as far as I remember, I just can't find the link right now
If Torsten decline his previous offer, I'm open to other adoption offers. My latest package is for Eric 3.4.1, but it needs some fixes that I just realized a couple days ago. Anyway, before adopting it, please, talk with me. There are a couple of things to point out about the package.
I would be most thankful for any hints.
greetings
Torsten
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