Thanks guys :)<br><br>If there's still any doubt, Ubuntu packaging as as different from Debian as Mandriva or SUSE are from Red Hat. It's theoretically possible to produce packages that work for both but it's a pain to maintain.<br>
<br>Scott can keep doing Ubuntu packages because he's well set up for it. I will be taking over only the Debian packaging. Don't think of it as inefficient use of resources; think of it as distributing the load.<br>
<br>Yay :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/10 Scott Ritchie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott@open-vote.org">scott@open-vote.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ubuntu packages have been up to date (uploaded within a day of release).<br>
<br>
Debian keeps falling behind because there's no easy way for me to build<br>
and test on Debian (with Ubuntu I can just upload them to launchpad and<br>
have it work).<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<font color="#888888">Scott Ritchie<br>
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Andrew Fenn wrote:<br>
> So your plan is to take over Debian packaging while abandoning Ubuntu<br>
> packaging?<br>
><br>
> You already mentioned he has abandoned packaging (however I see new<br>
> packages created on 8th November) Is there some technical reason you<br>
> can't do Ubuntu Debs?<br>
><br>
> I am trying to understand what is different from Ubuntu and Debian<br>
> which would prevent you making a package for both.<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Ben Klein <<a href="mailto:shacklein@gmail.com">shacklein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Hi guys,<br>
>><br>
>> I'm a regular volunteer in the #winehq IRC channel (man_in_shack). Some of<br>
>> you may know me :) I also maintain a few applications on AppDB and have had<br>
>> a couple of bugs found and fixed via bugzilla posts.<br>
>><br>
>> I've been building Wine packages for my Debian systems for a while and now<br>
>> I've written myself some helper scripts to make the task trivial :) I build<br>
>> both amd64 and i386 packages.<br>
>><br>
>> I'd like to request that I take over Scott Ritchie's position as maintainer<br>
>> for the winehq Debian packages as he seems to have all but abandoned Debian<br>
>> package building. I have the following caveats:<br>
>> 1) I don't have a suitable place to upload the packages (in terms of<br>
>> bandwidth restrictions)<br>
>> 2) At the moment, I'm not sure if the packages are suitable for an apt<br>
>> repository, as I don't have proper Changelogs or source packages. I'm not<br>
>> entirely sure what I'd need to do for this, so help would be appreciated<br>
>> 3) I'm fully set up to produce etch packages (Scott's packages aren't<br>
>> etch-compatible any more) as well as packages for lenny and sid<br>
>> 4) I'm not asking to take over Ubuntu package building (Scott seems to be<br>
>> good at this, and I don't have nor want an Ubuntu system)<br>
>> 5) I can be *very* quick to produce packages, as in the day after release<br>
>> (or even building packages from non-release revisions in git if required)<br>
>><br>
>> Involvement in wine is fun!<br>
>><br>
>> Regards,<br>
>><br>
>> Ben Klein<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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