[IAEP] Getting Debian

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:14 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> I have been in contact with Debian, DebianEdu, and SkoleLinux about
> adding getting Sugar for their distributions to
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Debian .
>
> The Jhbuild information on the w.l.o page is pretty overwhelming to
> newcomers.  It is directed more towards developers.  So it is located at
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Jhbuild
>
> I would make sense to
> populate http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Debian
> and point to it from [supported systems].
>
> There is a great deal of interest in shipping Sugar within these
> distributions.
>
> I will look into Fedora and fedora based distributions this afternoon.

Awesome, I guess we have two different kind of users for these kind of packages:

- people who just want to try it out. A LiveCD might be better, but if
Debian is already installed, having a stable (read outdated) version
on the official repositories might be good enough. 'apt-get install
sugar' should just work.

- people who want to test it or develop for it. Alternative repos
might be provided, with testing and unstable versions, after adding
those repos, apt-get should be enough.

This matches the debian style?

Thanks,

Tomeu