[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Getting packages into the distributions (was: Re: [be] BE 3.4 is packaged)

[Jonathan Marsden]

Daniel Glassey wrote to the bibledit-general list:

> Just to let you guys know, there is a new collaborative effort for
> packaging programs related to crosswire.org. They are taking on
> bibledit as well so packages should be kept more uptodate now. Debian
> is still in freeze but there should be uptodate packages in Ubuntu
> jaunty soon and hopefully backports for hardy and intrepid.

We're perhaps duplicating effort a bit here, I think?  I very recently 
posted about this new packaging of bibledit to bibledit-devel (I think I 
cced our team list, too?) and I am talking with Teus on bibledit-devel 
now about some very minor issues I found in that process (copyright / 
licence details mostly).

BTW, can we really not get an updated package accepted into Debian 
experimental, at the moment?

I was hoping for you (or someone else, but most likely you!) to do that 
very soon for bibledit, and then we can get a sync request in for it to 
go from there into Ubuntu Jaunty.  I was hoping that would be a sort of 
first test case (since it doesn't depend on libsword at all) for our 
team.  If that route isn't an option for us, then we'll have to get our 
packages into Ubuntu more directly, and we'll have to find 2 MOTUs to 
approve each one.

I think the Debian experimental and sync from there to Ubuntu route 
would be easier (and probably more appropriate in principle for packages 
that will be in both Debian and Ubuntu, anyway), if we can do it!

Since at least one of our packages (bibledit) is IMO very close to being 
ready for pushing up to the distros, we should start discussing how we 
as a team plan to handle that part of the effort.  You are our sole tame 
DD, and I don't think we have any MOTUs on the packaging team, so... we 
will need your help with that part of things!

Jonathan