[Splashy-devel] Re: Packages (0.3.2 powerpc)

[Luis Mondesi]

On 5/4/07, Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:
>
> "Juan Manuel" <ptero.4 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >    I though that you would put them on the website´s ¨files¨ section,
> >    hence anyone with debian on a PPC machine would benefit from a
> >    packaged version (the last packaged version for ppc is 0.1.5 svn I
> >    tought that you didn´t have a PowerPC machine to make the packages
> and
> >    that it was the reason why the PowerPC version was so outdated
> >    compared to the x86 one).
>
> Well, there're binaries now for most arches available directly on
> Debian. You can grab the ppc ones in
>
>
> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/download.pl?arch=powerpc&file=pool%2Fmain%2Fs%2Fsplashy%2Fsplashy_0.3.2_powerpc.deb&md5sum=baf84468a9de049c2e0c77d54818e071&arch=powerpc&type=main
>
> Would be nice if you could send an email to the mailing list about
> it. I think we shouldn't continue to provide binaries (only source) to
> avoid them to being outdated.



Yes, I thought about providing only sources in the Splashy project page, but
a surprisingly large number of people go there to download the binaries...
So I copied the x86 version of the package from Debian to the project's
release file system.

This helps Splashy keep on top of the Alioth announcement page as well,
making it even more popular ;-)

(I deleted some of the old distributions by mistake and this deleted our
download statistics. This is the reason why Splashy went from being the
number 1 project to number 9 or so in Alioth... oh well, we will get there
again one of these days).

I'll add notes in the release News about the other architectures supported
and the link to get them from the Debian packages page.

Regards,


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