Ubuntu packages have been up to date (uploaded within a day of release). Debian keeps falling behind because there's no easy way for me to build and test on Debian (with Ubuntu I can just upload them to launchpad and have it work).
Thanks, Scott Ritchie Andrew Fenn wrote: > So your plan is to take over Debian packaging while abandoning Ubuntu > packaging? > > You already mentioned he has abandoned packaging (however I see new > packages created on 8th November) Is there some technical reason you > can't do Ubuntu Debs? > > I am trying to understand what is different from Ubuntu and Debian > which would prevent you making a package for both. > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Ben Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm a regular volunteer in the #winehq IRC channel (man_in_shack). Some of >> you may know me :) I also maintain a few applications on AppDB and have had >> a couple of bugs found and fixed via bugzilla posts. >> >> I've been building Wine packages for my Debian systems for a while and now >> I've written myself some helper scripts to make the task trivial :) I build >> both amd64 and i386 packages. >> >> I'd like to request that I take over Scott Ritchie's position as maintainer >> for the winehq Debian packages as he seems to have all but abandoned Debian >> package building. I have the following caveats: >> 1) I don't have a suitable place to upload the packages (in terms of >> bandwidth restrictions) >> 2) At the moment, I'm not sure if the packages are suitable for an apt >> repository, as I don't have proper Changelogs or source packages. I'm not >> entirely sure what I'd need to do for this, so help would be appreciated >> 3) I'm fully set up to produce etch packages (Scott's packages aren't >> etch-compatible any more) as well as packages for lenny and sid >> 4) I'm not asking to take over Ubuntu package building (Scott seems to be >> good at this, and I don't have nor want an Ubuntu system) >> 5) I can be *very* quick to produce packages, as in the day after release >> (or even building packages from non-release revisions in git if required) >> >> Involvement in wine is fun! >> >> Regards, >> >> Ben Klein >> >> >> >> > >
