[Evolution] Is there a repo of Evolution for maintenance in Debian?

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On ven, 2009-06-19 at 08:00 +0800, Li, Yan wrote:
> Nice! I'm going to maintain Anjal for Moblin and since I'm a long term
> Debian user so I think I can also try to package and maintain it for
> Debian. But I'm new to Debian packaging.  It's very interesting.

Cool. Feel free to ask for help and review on your package.

> 
> > >  and it needs Evolution 2.27+ so I want
> > > to upgrade Evolution first. I have searched for a while but can't find
> > > a collaborative source code repo. Is there one?
> > 
> > Debcheckout evolution would have pointed you to:
> 
> Thanks! I didn't know this command before.
> 
> > svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-evolution/>
>  
> > There's no 2.27 packaging at the moment (no time) but that will be the
> > case one day. When I have time I'll do some work on it, but if you want
> > to start working on it, I guess it's doable. I can provide you commit
> > access on the repository, but you can submit patches, that would help.

(I meant “can't”)
> 
> I'll try to build Evo 2.27.3 (as well as eds, webkit-gtk if needed)
> first and will let you know when I'm ready.  For Anjal a patch to Evo
> is needed and I'll try to talk with Anjal developers to get
> justification for making that patch into main Evo package.

Could you point us to the patch. Until there's a comment from evo
developpers I don't think we could integrate it (especially if it
changes many stuff and break compatibility) but it's worth looking at
it.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis