[Debian-olpc-devel] Status of core packaging

Sat Mar 22 20:58:10 UTC 2008

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:25:42AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 09:11:53PM -0500, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
> >wrote:
> >>this week im going to work in packaging activities, knowing that we
> >>have the core sugar packaged..
>
> I have just finalized sugar-journal-activity, and with it another cdbs
> snippet to ease packaging of Sugar activities.  I recommend you Pull the
> Git of that package and use the debian subdir as template for other
> actitivies:
>
>   git git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/sugar-journal-activity.git
>

Only for clarification is

> git-clone  git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/sugar-
> journal-activity.git
>

> Replace with git+ssh as needed for write access.  Or adjust that later -
> read debian/README.packaging and "git help config".
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> >But do we really have _working_ core packages yet?
>
> Here's a status on the core packages:
>
>   * sugar-shell (or really python-cairo, I believe) segfaults
>     (bug#472103).  Workaround: use patched python-cairo from here:
>
>       deb http://debian.jones.dk/ sid pycairo
>
>   * python-olpc-datastore broken: indexing routines unsupported on
>     Python < 2.5.  This means no storage currently :-(
>
>   * python-hippostorage (and possibly others too) only available
>     for default Python 2.4.  Not a problem in itself, but means we
>     can't temporarily use Python 2.5 as workaround for the above.
>
>   * python-journal-activity: Awaiting ftpmaster approval in NEW
>     queue.
>
> Agree with the general status of things
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>

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Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
One Laptop Per Child
rafael at laptop.org
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