[pkg-fso-maint] Future of Debian for GTAxx

[Sebastian Reichel]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 07:47:24AM +0200, Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> The other problem is that we lack free mobile UIs or resources to
> package them, for which http://lists.debian.org/debian-mobile/ was
> recently founded. What's related is that the most ready-to-be-used UI
> is actually SHR's Enlightenment based user interface,

Which is almost completly available from Debian testing since some
days ago :) I just uploaded a version of fso-frameworkd fixing the
RC bugs, so that it can transition to testing. This should result in
the transition of the remaining SHR packages phoneuid and phoneui-apps.

So wheezy will come with the complete SHR UI!

For complete GTAxx support only the GTA0[12] kernel is missing.
GTA04 should be supported by linux-image-omap on armhf in the future
(its board code is missing mainline and device tree support is not
yet ready).

> but Debian's pkg-e team practically consists of one person who is
> also largely inactive - so Debian Enlightenment packages are out
> of date. Another part of the problem is the E17 itself of course,
> which for a very long time didn't do such things as releases.
> There is also not that much of desktop side demand for it yet.

Actually the enlightenment libraries are currently up to date. There
are newer snapshots available, but no newer releases. The problem
is, that there are no stable releases of elementary so far and its
latest snapshot needs features in the base libraries, which are not
part of the released versions.

-- Sebastian
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fso-maint/attachments/20120307/fa669d11/attachment-0001.pgp>