Bug#752837: About to have broken kiwix remove from Debian
Hi Emmanuel, On Do 25 Sep 2014 11:35:47 CEST, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote: Hi Mike Thank you very much for your patience and effort to keep Kiwix running on Debian. The work generated by the deletion of xulrunner related packages is not trivial. We have had already a look to this at the time xulrunner was removed from Ubuntu. Therefore, without a compilation/gecko wizard being able to fix it within the next weeks, I don't think kiwix is going to survive in the Debian repository... for now. It's of course sad, it has always been important for us to be in Debian. But, Kiwix development is alive and I hope this step backward will be at anytime forgotten by two steps forward, and we will see then Kiwix back in Debian. Regards Emmanuel thanks for your reply. We just discussed the issue on IRC (for those who were not around on IRC channel #kiwix (Freenode). I have filed a removal request for kiwix against ftp.debian.org. Mike -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby fon: +49 (1520) 1976 148 GnuPG Key ID 0x25771B31 mail: mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de freeBusy: https://mail.das-netzwerkteam.de/freebusy/m.gabriel%40das-netzwerkteam.de.xfb pgp9Yx7DC8VE_.pgp Description: Digitale PGP-Signatur
Bug#752837: About to have broken kiwix remove from Debian
Hi Mike Thank you very much for your patience and effort to keep Kiwix running on Debian. The work generated by the deletion of xulrunner related packages is not trivial. We have had already a look to this at the time xulrunner was removed from Ubuntu. Therefore, without a compilation/gecko wizard being able to fix it within the next weeks, I don't think kiwix is going to survive in the Debian repository... for now. It's of course sad, it has always been important for us to be in Debian. But, Kiwix development is alive and I hope this step backward will be at anytime forgotten by two steps forward, and we will see then Kiwix back in Debian. Regards Emmanuel On 25.09.2014 10:48, Mike Gabriel wrote: Below message has gone to Kelson, Renauld, Vasudev and Debian Edu Packaging Team ML _and_ to a WRONG bugnumber in the Debian BTS. -> Thus resending this message for the record to the correct bug (#752837) Hi Kelson, hi Renauld, hi Vasudev, I have spent another hour getting kiwix fixed in Debian and failed. In Debian testing/unstable there will be no xulrunner binary anymore. It gets replaced by "iceweasel -app ". I have tried to patch that change into the current code base we have been recommended by Kelson [1] and the patching of autoconf/automake files fails. It is not possible to run autoreconf on the kiwix source tree. So basically, the current Git snapshot of Kiwix we have is sort of a mess and not usable at all. We have kept the broken kiwix in Debian far too long. If you cannot provide a source tree of kiwix that fullfills the following requirements within the next two weeks, I will file a removal request for kiwix against ftp.debian.org. The requirements for a new source snapshot (or release) I have are these: o calling autoreconf must work on the sources o the sources must not contain any build-crufted files (Makefile.in, config.*, configure, etc.) o the replacement of xulrunner by iceweasel must be implemented by upstream Let me know if this is feasible for you (so I can file the removal request right away). If you provide me with working sources by Oct. 10th 2014, I will do my best to get Kiwix into Debian jessie. If not, then not. Greets, Mike [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/kiwix.git/ ___ Debian-edu-pkg-team mailing list debian-edu-pkg-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-edu-pkg-team -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#752837: About to have broken kiwix remove from Debian
Below message has gone to Kelson, Renauld, Vasudev and Debian Edu Packaging Team ML _and_ to a WRONG bugnumber in the Debian BTS. -> Thus resending this message for the record to the correct bug (#752837) Hi Kelson, hi Renauld, hi Vasudev, I have spent another hour getting kiwix fixed in Debian and failed. In Debian testing/unstable there will be no xulrunner binary anymore. It gets replaced by "iceweasel -app ". I have tried to patch that change into the current code base we have been recommended by Kelson [1] and the patching of autoconf/automake files fails. It is not possible to run autoreconf on the kiwix source tree. So basically, the current Git snapshot of Kiwix we have is sort of a mess and not usable at all. We have kept the broken kiwix in Debian far too long. If you cannot provide a source tree of kiwix that fullfills the following requirements within the next two weeks, I will file a removal request for kiwix against ftp.debian.org. The requirements for a new source snapshot (or release) I have are these: o calling autoreconf must work on the sources o the sources must not contain any build-crufted files (Makefile.in, config.*, configure, etc.) o the replacement of xulrunner by iceweasel must be implemented by upstream Let me know if this is feasible for you (so I can file the removal request right away). If you provide me with working sources by Oct. 10th 2014, I will do my best to get Kiwix into Debian jessie. If not, then not. Greets, Mike [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/kiwix.git/ -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby fon: +49 (1520) 1976 148 GnuPG Key ID 0x25771B31 mail: mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de freeBusy: https://mail.das-netzwerkteam.de/freebusy/m.gabriel%40das-netzwerkteam.de.xfb Digitale_PGP_Signatur Description: PGP signature pgp4ojvrJMsSs.pgp Description: Digitale PGP-Signatur
