From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Debian packages (Re: What can I do to help?) Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 00:51:35 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87wuoxo2l4.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <20020928105825.A8084@ns.jfreebies.com> <87adluryz2.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033797473 29999 127.0.0.1 (5 Oct 2002 05:57:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 05:57:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17xhwk-0007nZ-00 for ; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 07:57:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xhuA-0003wx-00; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 01:55:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17xhts-0003Fa-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 01:54:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17xhrN-0008Iz-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 01:52:19 -0400 Original-Received: from n66644228.ipcdsl.net ([66.64.4.228] helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xhqm-0008Ck-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 01:51:40 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF97F0D4; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 00:51:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 654592BC1; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 00:51:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Daniel Skarda <0rfelyus@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: (Daniel Skarda's message of "04 Oct 2002 20:46:59 +0200") Original-Lines: 47 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1452 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1452 Daniel Skarda <0rfelyus@ucw.cz> writes: > I am sorry for my provocative and ungrateful writing. It seems I > have to learn how to write Debian packages so I could help and stop > groaning. I have not look in /usr/share/doc/ and I thought that > guile*.deb packages are lonely orphans. Thank you for maintaining > guile packages. Thanks, and you're certainly welcome, though I *am* definitely running behind. > But I do not agree with you that Guile development versions should > be hidden from outside world. It should be released, but clearly > marked as a development version, which is unstable and it possible > that its interface change in future. You have good points, but let's wait until I get the debian/* files into CVS and finish packaging. At that point we can talk about it. As an example concern, note that during a development series, the major number of the shared libs may change (or may *not* change when they should), so I want to be a little cautious about uploading development packages where other debian developers might grab it and install the -dev package without realizing the implications, and then start building/uploading their own guile-dependent packages. This may not be a big deal, but I'll need to think about it. > ps: I have quickly browsed through CVS workbook directory but have I > not seen any schedule of 1.7.x development branch. What features > will go to particular 1.7.x versions etc. The main resource right now is workbook/tasks/TODO, but it only has a few items at a moment. > ps: Installing different guile versions with same prefix would cause > conflicts. Are you going to use same "strategy" as Gtk+? > (usr/include/gtk-1.2, /u/i/gtk-2.0 etc..) That's a good question -- for my initial debian packages, I'm probably only going to allow one set of development files to be installed at a time... -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel