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

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 11:10:16PM +0200, Torsten Marek wrote:
> 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?
> 

I'm not a python packager, better asking on d-python before.

> 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.
> 

Sorry, maybe an error in cleaning spammers on the list admin panel. Now
it's done.

> 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.
> 

Yes that's mandatory, nice to see your interest about the thing.

> 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.
> 

Uhm, I'm not so keen on zeroinstall generally, it could violate debian 
policy in principle...

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Francesco P. Lovergine