On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:59:45AM +0100, G??ran Krampe wrote:
> 
> Jos?? Luis Redrejo Rodr??guez wrote:
> >>Please, contact us directly on any outstanding issue, which you think
> >>prevents you from moving forward.
> >>I think we will manage to solve any of them if we will work together as a
> >>team.
> >
> >Great, I just want to add that it would be a good progress having only one
> >Debian version of the squeak packages, updated, and done between all the
> >people who is interested in it. Now there are at least three packages for
> >the same squeak-vm: one in Debian, another in Ubuntu, and another in
> >squeak.org That's simply a waste of resources. Last april I open a
> >collaborative project on https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-squeak/ ,
> >Both Matej Kosik and Bert Freudenberg have sent emails announcing it, but
> >nobody has joined or apported a line. I think that would be a good starting
> >point but I'm open to any other suggestion.
> 
> Let me just say:
> 
> - Thank you for pulling this work! It is invaluable.

Thanks indeed! This is very important work. It may not be obvious to
everyone reading this list, but I think that managing the packaging
for a Linux distro is really a big job. It requires an understanding
of the haphazard progression of Squeak and VM development, an understanding
of the wide range of platforms (including 32/64 bit and various processors)
supported by the Linux distro, coordination with release cycles for
the distro, and an understanding of license issues. That's quite a
lot to take on, and it is a very valuable service for the large
majority of Squeak users who are more interested in using Squeak
than in trying to figure out how to build or install the software.

Dave