[squeak-dev] Re: Ubuntu package maintainers help

Lex Spoon lex at lexspoon.org
Mon Apr 20 21:31:24 UTC 2009


Jose, the packages Matej is now maintaining really are far ahead of  
the ones you have uploaded.  They reflect dozens of hours by at least  
four maintainers, and there have been multiple insights along the way  
about how to make things Just Work for the common use cases.

In case it needs being explicit, here are some things those packages  
do that are not in the ones you have uploaded:

A "squeak" package that pulls in everything a VM, changes, and sources  
file.
A rich set of images files (hich would need to remain in an external  
apt repository)
A "squeak" script that works when typed by itself...
...and also works with the images and sources packages.
Desktop menu items.

We should use these packages as a basis going forward.  The DFSG-free  
ones can go into Debian proper, and the others can stay on ftp.squeak.org 
.  The libMPEG issue is a good catch, but it seems pretty trivial,  
isn't it?  It could be disabled for now, and later provided as an  
external plugin hosted on ftp.squeak.org.


Lex




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