On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Dmitry Shachnev <mity...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > There are many problems with the current state of our Packaging Guide [1]: > > * Half of it talks about Ubuntu Distributed Development, which is no longer > a living thing. > * Another part is a bit outdated, as it is mostly unmaintained, while our > tools and methods continuously evolve. Also that other part is mostly > redundant, as the Debian documentation talks about the same things. > * There are 63 bugs [2] at the moment, and almost nobody looks at them. > > Daniel Holbach who was one of the main contributors, left Canonical [3] in > December, and since then we had almost no changes apart from translations > (except for two Laney’s fixes — thanks!). > > Unless someone wants to take this project over, I propose the following: > > * Remove ubuntu-packaging-guide package from Debian and Ubuntu archives. > * Turn the current website into a collection of links to other resources > (i.e. those from [4]). > > Opinions? > > [1]: http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/ > [2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-packaging-guide > [3]: https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2016/12/taking-a-break/ > [4]: http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/#further-reading > >
Hi Dmitry, Thanks for bringing this up! I was also looking at the same from past couple of days (was actually giving an intro into ubuntu-development in one of the schools) and found that some parts are outdated. I can take a look at the whole packaging guide starting this weekend and if anyone would help out (like co-maintain stuff), would be interested in updating the docs. /me lifts his both hands up to help in this regard. Thanks! -- Bhavani Shankar Ubuntu Developer | www.ubuntu.com https://launchpad.net/~bhavi -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel