pidgin uploaded to unstable

[Benjamin Seidenberg]

I'm partial to that idea. I have an older version mostly-packaged, there
was some automatic stuff not quite right, that I believe has been fixed
since. I can put my work online soon, when I find the time.



Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> As the upstream for my plug-in pointed out, several of the plug-ins
> were merged in gaim-plugin-pack (ITP #353641) and have thus become
> obsolete. This might simplify the task for at least some of us, in
> that our individual packages are no longer relevant.
> 
> What about co-maintaining pidgin-plugin-pack as a team, instead?
> 
> On 5/7/07, Ari Pollak <ari at debian.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> You're getting this message if you're listed as the maintainer or an
>> uploader of a gaim plugin package.
>> Pidgin has been accepted into unstable, and I plan to upload
>> transitional dummy packages from gaim to pidgin in two weeks or so. This
>> means that you should be getting your separate pidgin plugin packages
>> uploaded ASAP, so that they have enough time to go through NEW. As a
>> quick checklist, you should be doing the following:
>> - Create a new package called pidgin-plugin, where it used to be called
>> gaim-plugin, with the sources separate from the gaim-plugin package.
>> - The build should be almost identical to the gaim plugin package, but
>> change the build-dependency from gaim-dev to pidgin-dev, and change
>> running dh_gaim to dh_pidgin.
>> - Prepare a gaim-plugin dummy package that just depends on
>> pidgin-plugin, but don't upload this until the gaim dummy packages are
>> uploaded. I'd be glad to upload your package at the same time as the
>> dummy gaim packages, just let me know.
>>
>> As always, if you have any questions, please let me know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ari
>>
>>
> 
> 


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