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

[Daniel Glassey]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Daniel Glassey wrote to the bibledit-general list:
to a small group of people including Teus
>
>> 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?

Kinda, but I wanted to get the folks that had poked me about it uptodate.

> 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).

Great.

> 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 didn't realise syncs could be made from experimental! Yes, I can
upload there once the copyright/license issues are sorted.

Thanks,
Daniel