From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timothy Sample Subject: Re: Packaging Jami (ex GNU Ring) Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:03:49 -0500 Message-ID: <875zuxg9ey.fsf@ngyro.com> References: <87imyy5i66.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42640) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghFOd-0008Mn-Ts for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:03:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghFOc-0006OU-VG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:03:55 -0500 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:42591) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghFOc-0006Mt-P9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:03:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87imyy5i66.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Wed, 09 Jan 2019 09:50:09 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: Guix-devel Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Hey, > > I'd like to package Jami. Has anyone given it a shot yet? I did some work on this about eight months ago, but wasn=E2=80=99t able to finish it. AFAIK, my work is the most recent and complete attempt. IIRC, I could install and run Ring, but it was not entirely usable. I just committed all of my working directory files, and pushed everything to on the =E2=80=9Cwip-rin= g=E2=80=9D branch. Unfortunately, I have to kind of throw it over the wall at you. It was some time ago, and I can=E2=80=99t remember all of the details. Apologies for the mess. :) There are two things that I do remember, though. (1) Jami has a lot of vendored packages and some of them have significant patches (I=E2=80=99m mo= stly thinking of =E2=80=9Cpjproject=E2=80=9D). Some of these patches were in th= e process of being upstreamed, so let=E2=80=99s hope that has gone well and you can clea= n up some of the patches and hacks that were needed there. (2) I had some pause about what to do with copyright headers. You are the fourth person to work on this, and the other three of us did not consistently add our names to the copyright headers of files we changed. ;) Not sure what to do there. Happy hacking! -- Tim