Re: RFS: inferno

2007-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On 7/7/07, Nicholas Jefferson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/inferno/inferno_0.0.20070510-2.diff.gz No time to sponsor, but some comments: * consider putting the patches into quilt (or maybe dpatch) * that is a lot of patches to the font stuff, what are

RFS: inferno

2007-07-06 Thread Nicholas Jefferson
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package inferno. This is a more recent version of the Inferno distributed system than for my previous RFS [1]. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/04/msg00111.html * Package name: inferno Version : 0.0.20070510-2

Re: RFS: inferno

2007-04-16 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Nicholas Jefferson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-16 12:45]: * URL : http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/ Without looking further into your package (which shouldn't be native btw). What is the purpose to package an operating system in debian? Inferno is a compact operating

Re: RFS: inferno

2007-04-16 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le lundi 16 avril 2007 12:54, Nico Golde a écrit : Really nothing against Inferno, Limbo is great and I love p9 but I think the user base is a bit too small to justify an upload here. I don't see a point in using archive space for operation systems if they can be used in qemu for example too.

Re: RFS: inferno

2007-04-16 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Romain Beauxis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-16 13:26]: Le lundi 16 avril 2007 12:54, Nico Golde a écrit : Really nothing against Inferno, Limbo is great and I love p9 but I think the user base is a bit too small to justify an upload here. I don't see a point in using archive space for

Re: RFS: inferno

2007-04-16 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le lundi 16 avril 2007 13:41, Nico Golde a écrit : I don't know anything about all of this, but I don't think user base is relevant. There is a lot of project that we upload without them having an important userbase, and space waste is not relevant too for the same reasons.. I don't

Re: RFS: inferno

2007-04-16 Thread Nicholas Jefferson
Disk space is also one of the reasons why we split architecture independent data from architecture dependant packages if it's more than the usual README file. I've removed inferno-dev and split inferno into inferno-bin (for i386 and amd64) and inferno-apps (for all). These packages now total

Re: RFS: inferno

2007-04-15 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Nicholas Jefferson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-16 01:03]: I am looking for a sponsor for my package inferno. * Package name: inferno Version : 20070202-1 Upstream Author : Vita Nuova Holdings Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

Re: RFS: inferno

2007-04-15 Thread Nicholas Jefferson
* URL : http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/ Without looking further into your package (which shouldn't be native btw). What is the purpose to package an operating system in debian? Inferno is a compact operating system designed for building distributed and networked systems on a