[Debian-olpc-devel] Status of the Sugar packaging in Debian/Ubuntu

[Sascha Silbe]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 07:46:45PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> Write needed a Python wrapper for Abiword, which is almost ready  
> (available in experimental only as a libabiword bug blocks it from  
> compiling).
Just today I figured out how to fix this bug (and how to get 
pbuilder/cowbuilder to do what I want which actually was most of the 
work), we just need someone to rebuild and upload the official package 
with the fix (a one-line addition to debian/libabiword-2.8-dev.install).
I'm looking forward to pyabiword hitting squeeze so I can throw it out 
of sugar-jhbuild on Debian as well (Fedora already has it). :D

> Pippy has some problems compiling when upgraded to newest release - I 
>   forgot the details.
Would be nice to get the details so we can fix it upstream.

>> By the way, David has created quite some Sugar packages, which are  
>> available at  
>> https://edge.launchpad.net/~sugarteam/+archive/0.86/+packages. I  
>> haven't really looked at them yet nor at what Debian already has, but 
>> I hope they'll serve as a starting point.
> Yes, I am aware that he have dived into Ubuntu-specific packaging.  My 
>   impression is that he consider Debian packaging a too steep learning 
>   curve and Ubuntu a stepping stone for "proper" packaging.
I think his intention is slightly different: Those packages are the 
result of jhconvert, an automatic tool evaluating the sugar-jhbuild 
configs to produce binary packages for various distributions. This isn't 
"proper" packaging (thus only a stepping stone), but provides working 
(even if not highest-quality) packages for Ubuntu (the distribution he 
is running himself AFAIK) _now_.
But maybe he'll step up to clarify this. :)

CU Sascha

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