new packages: libraries for the 'puredata' package

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Aug 8, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:

> On 06/08/10 13:46, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 11:11 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>> On 05/08/10 23:51, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 20:52 -0400, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>>>> Hi Hans-Cristoph,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:10:14PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> So I've been maintaining a set of packages outside of Debian  
>>>>>> for a
>>>>>> whole bunch of libraries for the Pd (aka Pure Data) programming
>>>>>> langauge.
>>>>>
>>>>> Awesome.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I also want to become a DM, and working with pkg-multimedia
>>>>>
>>>>> Even more awesome! :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I am thinking the next step is to take one package all the way  
>>>>>> thru the
>>>>>> mentors.debian.net process and get that all smoothed out, then  
>>>>>> work on
>>>>>> the rest.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just join our team.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Debian sponsoring/mentoring system is for lonely riders, not  
>>>>> teams.
>>>>>
>>>>> In other words: You need no mentor or sponsoring when working  
>>>>> with us.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you already subscribed to this mailinglist?  Can I drop you as
>>>>> explicit recipient?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>  - Jonas
>>>>
>>>> Some relevant bullet points ;)
>>>> * I'm already on this list
>>>> * I read thru the DebianMultimedia wiki
>>>> * I'm eighthave-guest on alioth
>>>
>>> I've just added you. Welcome to the team! You can start importing  
>>> your
>>> packages into git.
>>
>> Yee haw! I'm going to work thru the final kinks in the upstream SVN
>> where I have been doing the development/packaging so far.  Then I'll
>> upload them.
>
>
> I believe I speak for the team if I say we prefer if you work directly
> on the git repository, because then interested people can look at the
> commit logs via de commits mailing list.

Yes, that's my plan.  So far, I've been doing the debian development  
in the upstream SVN. I thought it made the most sense to finish up the  
initial work there, so there is a coherent history there.  Then once I  
submit the package to Debian, switch it over to the pkg-multimedia  
git.  Does that make sense?

> BTW, all those externals seem to come from the same repository. I'm  
> not
> quite familiar with Pd's release workflow, but it seems to me that
> externals are not released independently of pd. In such a case, it  
> might
> be better so create a single source package that builds all of these
> externals? Indeed, there seems to already be a makefile to build all  
> of
> them.

Yeah, we have been releasing them in a giant tarball, but we are  
stopping that as of our next release.  I'm the release manager for all  
platforms (including Mac OS X and Windows) so my plan is to get all of  
the elements into Debian, then base my release schedule around what's  
released in Debian.

> Finally, you might want to also take over pd-zexy (orphaned:  
> #546964) as
> part of the same source package (also at the same svn repository).

It turns out that the pd-zexy upstream author, IOhannes Zmölnig, is a  
long time Debian user and working on becoming a DM, so I've encouraged  
him to join pkg-multimedia and maintain pd-zexy here.  If he doesn't  
want to, I'll do it.

.hc


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