[pkg-fgfs-crew] Some ideas for the packaging of the next FlightGear release

[Chris Baines]

>> Ove, you have been brilliant fixing the transition issues with
>> openscenegraph, do you intend to package version 2.4.0?
>
> Sure. I'll look at it this weekend.

Great, I will have a look at the fgfs-aircraft-extra package.

> There's also a significant chance I'll do a little bit of other work on
> FlightGear soon, due to a commitment I've recently made. Perhaps I'll
> come up with a solution for TerraSync then.

Sounds good.

> By the way, I was a bit annoyed at noticing that discussion where you
> stated that you were going to package the new release and start
> packaging from scratch, without telling me about it. At present, the
> packages are still my responsibility. I do appreciate getting help and
> patches, and your skills do seem to have improved recently, but I
> haven't given anyone else permission to mess with the FlightGear
> packages yet. And certainly, in order to completely repackage it, then
> you'd need that permission. For packages in Debian, that's the general
> rule even if the current maintainer sucks (Developer's Reference,
> section 5.9.5). So it was a bit disappointing to see...

Sorry to disappoint. Looking back on this, I can see how you could be
annoyed. When writing the email, I was just trying to explain my
position, I assumed (incorrectly) that you would not have the time to
package 2.4.0. I also wanted to get across that I could not be
depended on to fix this issue at least in the short to medium terms. I
did not intend to either keep you in the dark, or go behind you back
on this, even though my email on the subject of the removal of
FlightGear did make it look like this was the case.

Apologies,

Chris