[GNC-dev] Launchpad

Stephen M. Butler kg7je at arrl.net
Mon Dec 31 12:55:43 EST 2018


On 12/31/18 9:47 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> I don't think the guys/gals that maintain the official Debian and
> Ubuntu packages are on this list, though I may be wrong.
>
> Colin



Perhaps the question then becomes:  Is the team willing to support an
unofficial PPA for the latest version of GnC?

If so, I'll do more research.  If not, I'll stop.

> On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 17:44, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
>> 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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