[Debian-olpc-devel] Sync with debian

[Morgan Collett]

Hi Jonas

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 21:36, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 01:35:43PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
>>On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 13:42 -0400, ffm wrote:
>>> David Farning wrote:
>>> > In the short term am not sure if it is worth the effort to pull all
>>> > of his changes through the sync/merge cycle.
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>>> Wouldn't it be more effort to update all of the packages manually?
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> I agree with FFM.
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> Please elaborate on your concern: Do you consider the size itself a
> problem, or do you fear that large diff equals high risk of merge
> problems?
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> Please note that the diff only adds a /debian subdir, it does not (in
> itself) patch existing sourcecode. Also note that the CDBS extensions
> are all below debian/cdbs, not touching the debian/* stuff directly,
> only included in the debian/rules makefile.

We have started syncing the debian packages. We'll give feedback to
the debian list.

>>I have cross posted this to the the Debian-olpc team to which Jonas
>>subscribes.
>
> Thanks.
>
> And I note that there's a dedicated Ubuntu Sugar team list - thanks for
> bringing that to my attention (and sorry for my ignorance if you did so
> already!).

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam for more details.

Regards
Morgan