[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: etoile source package, camaelon.bundle binary package

[Hubert Chan]

On Mon, 15 May 2006 14:54:41 +0200, Gürkan Sengün said:

> hello i've packaged camaelon.bundle (from a daily tarball of etoile)
> and put pkg-gnustep-maintainers as co-maintainer. i hope to get this
> sponsored soon.  additionally there is another package with 3 themes
> for the camaelon bundle.

> any debian package name suggestions?  i've thought of camaelon.bundle
> and camaelon.themes

I suspect that just plain "camaelon" will have a higher likelihood of
not being rejected by ftp-master.  But camaelon.bundle would be more
consistent with e.g. wildmenus.bundle.

> wildmenus.bundle will be replaced by etoile wildmenus and/or gnustep
> (it's seems to be integrated now, since last tarball release) i didn't
> test this.

Yeah, I saw a note about horizontal menus in the changelog/announcement
somewhere.  But I think we would still need EtoileWildMenus if we want
to integrate with EtoileMenuServer.  (Maybe they should be packaged
together when they get packaged.)

> also i think we can remove simpleui.bundle now. eric can you file a
> package removal request?

It has already been removed.  packages.debian.org shows that it is only
available in unstable for kfreebsd-i386.

> hubert, i think you got the mail from adam fedor. i'd like to wait, or
> maybe you can also use a cvs/svn checkout?

Yes, I got the mail.  OK, we can wait for the next release, and hope
that the SONAME bump happens then, so that we can avoid having to
rebuild yet again.

What I plan to do is:

- upload the new gnustep-make and gnustep-ppd packages, since uploading
  these does not break anything.  (The new gnustep-make has some Debian
  enhancements, and the new gnustep-ppd is needed to break a circular
  dependency.)
- upload the new -base, -gui, and -back to my on personal repository for
  public testing.  It will not hurt to change your package to compile
  against these new packages, since I am dropping the SONAME from the
  -dev package names, and so in the future, no package changes will need
  to be done when the new GNUstep libraries are released -- just a
  recompile will be needed.
- I'll try to rebuild a bunch of applications with the new libraries,
  and have them available on my personal repository, so that people who
  want to try the new libraries can do so.

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