Having tried to get the Scratch package into Lucid, I've learned a lot about the process. Unfortunately, it sounds like we would have needed to start submitting / REVUing about 2 weeks ago. I met an extremely helpful and friendly MOTU called persia - but they said even they couldn't get it in if they owned it at this point. (Officially, things are frozen in about a 1/2 hour from now or so).
I wish I'd started the REVU process earlier! Turns out we could have easily added the improved plugin later - an easy fix once we had all the packaging issues worked out. There are, however, 3 more weeks until Debian's feature freeze. And if we get in there, we'll get put into future Ubuntu releases automagically. And meanwhile of course we have the PPA - and I think I'll add the package to our downloads page soon. So all and all it'll be about like it is for users of Windows and Mac. Oh - and a MOTU helped me fix (I think) the bug that was causing problems with installation in Kubuntu. Still need to test things though - but it seems likely to work better. To Do next: isolate the source for the package into a tarball so it can be easily packaged for any distro. That's going to take a little work... Scratch On! Amos On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Derek O'Connell <[email protected]>wrote: > I will be back on-line for a few hours in an hr or so. Will try to figure > it out between us then. > > > On 17/02/2010 19:23, Amos Blanton wrote: > > Hi All - > > It's looking like we started a bit too late to get into multiverse - alas. > Had I known how complex the process was, I would have gotten started > earlier! > > Currently the major roadblock has to do with incorrect versioning. Our > package was originally a native debian package (I think because Mako's > original plan was to push to Debian first?), and now it seems it should be > non-native. The conversion might be trivial for someone with more experience > in these matters -- it isn't for me. > > Here's the gist of it as expressed by a motu on ubuntu-motu irc at freenode: > ". just generate a proper tarball out of pristine svn sources (svn export, > tar -czf) and amend the version in debian/changelog to use > <upstreamversion>-0ubuntu1 > (11:44:04 AM) hyperair: where <upstreamversion> is from > scratch_<upstreamversion>. > orig.tar.gz" > > If anyone out there can do this and coordinate the rest of the necessary > changes to the control / rules files, etc., the source is > here:https://www.assembla.com/spaces/scratchonlinux/trac_subversion_tool > > -Amos > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~scratch > <https://launchpad.net/%7Escratch> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~scratch > <https://launchpad.net/%7Escratch> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > -- _____ Amos
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