[Pkg-ROX-devel] ROX-Lib2 & more

[Torsten Marek]

Hello rox packagers,

since the other ROX-Lib2 packages are not on the web anymore, I've taken the
liberty to create a deb of it. It's available from

http://diotavelli.net/files/deb

I'm not sure whether python-rox is a good name for it, though it's policy
compliant. I'm also a bit unhappy of being to forced to put it into /usr/lib.
findrox.py expects it to be in either ~/lib, /usr/local/lib or /usr/lib. The
location can also be specified via an environment variable:-/
Do you think that a symlink from /usr/lib to /usr/lib/python2.x/site-packages
would be better? Are there any rox applications that do not use findrox.py?

BTW, my main email address seems (shlomme at gmx.net) seems to be blocked from this
list, could you change that please? I'd like to subscribe to it. Thanks in advance.

Maybe we should think about a sane way of packaging ROX appdirs/applications. As
it is, rox-filer (and python-rox) are "unpacked" into the filesystem, but this
makes packaging rox applications an unpleasant experience. If there is enough
interest for having the most popular rox applications (edit, archive,
mime-editor, video-thumbnail, addapp) packaged (maybe ask on debian-user?),
maybe we can find a way to do that half-automatically. Documentation is moved
into /usr/share/doc/<package>/, translations into /usr/share/locale..., patch
the source and so on.

There is already a zeroinstall-injector deb in sourceforge, maybe it could also
be adopted.
BTW, I would package every application listed above, but I cannot make any
uploads right now. I'm waiting for frontdesk approval, and I fear that it'll
take some more weeks until my account is created.

greetings

Torsten

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