[GNC-dev] Launchpad

[Stephen M. Butler]

Dev Team,

So far, three folks have either used or inquired about using the debian
package for 3.4.  Marketing theory (no, I'm a software engineer by
avocation) says that there are several more that would take advantage if
it were more "supported".

Here are my thoughts:

 1. Both Ubuntu (Launchpad) and Debian request certain files in a
    ~/debian folder.  Most of these appear to be copies of files the
    application already has.  Perhaps a softlink could be put in the
    debian folder that points to the original so that changes in the
    original automatically show up in the folder.  Does this work via git?
 2. I'm willing to coordinate the effort to build that folder (I presume
    on the Master branch) but will need volunteers from more technical
    folks from time-to-time to handle some of the techy stuff.  I know
    the devs are busy squashing bugs so this would have to take a back
    seat to that. 
 3. Building this folder might even be beneficial to the official
    packagers for the various distros.
 4. One team for whom I did light testing, published a daily build (no
    longer daily as the software matured) for the adventurous.

                 
https://launchpad.net/~subsurface/+archive/ubuntu/subsurface-daily

I would be willing to push the files up to Launchpad if the team sees
value in perusing this.  However, I don't want to step on anybodies toes
if this would get in the way of the official release process for the
various distros.  And, if this got to the point of highly automated,
perhaps the dev team would prefer to do the push themselves.

--Steve

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