SuperCollider package

[Dan S]

2010/10/20 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 04:22, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2010/10/19 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>>> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:09, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 2010/10/6 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>>>>> Hi all, (Dan CCed because I'm not sure if you are subscribed to the list)
>>>>>
>>>>> I managed to take a few minutes to take a look at the package and it is
>>>>> not in a very good shape (it was still using simple-patchsys!). I have
>>>>> worked a bit on it, but it still has a long way to go. I will try to
>>>>> work on it during this week, I think I can find one hour or two.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dan, as you are part of upstream, could you comment on the patches
>>>>> included in the packaging? I can see they are in upstream svn ubuntu
>>>>> packaging module, with yourself as last commiter on most of them. They
>>>>> are older than the latest sc release, though.
>>>>
>>>> Hi - sorry for slow reply, I missed this thread. Most of the patches
>>>> are by other people but I will try to comment:
>>>>
>>>
>>>> 06_deb_scvim.diff
>>>>  - build machine != target machine so don't error out if no ruby executable
>>>
>>> This seems to also disable building scvim help?
>>
>> Yes, but that's OK - it gets done on first run rather than on build.
>
> Oh OK.
>
>>
>>
>>>> 08_deb_scvim_checkactive.diff
>>>>  - the 'scvim' script is a wrapper which launches vim with the sc3
>>>> plugin. debian vim-addons policy requires the plugin not to be
>>>> auto-enabled when installing, so we must modify the scvim script to
>>>> detect if the addon is not enabled, and to help the user enable it if
>>>> they want to. (Needs to be a patch since vim-addon-manager not
>>>> necessarily used on all linuxes)
>>>
>>> The code seems to be appropriately protected. I think it can be safely
>>> incorporated upstream.
>>
>> Good point. I've done that now in the svn.
>>
>>
>>> BTW, Dan, would you like to help maintain sc in debian? You could join
>>> our team, it is always good to have someone involved in upstream
>>> development.
>>
>> Yes I would like to - thanks! Do I need an account somewhere? (On
>> git.debian.org I don't see much instruction...)
>
> You need to get an account on alioth.debian.org. Then request to join
> the pkg-multimedia project (it has a link somewhere in the project
> page), and we will add you. Also read wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia
> for some information on how we have been working.

OK thanks. I've created an account "danstowell-guest" and submitted a request.

Dan