[IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:07:13PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
>On Friday 07 November 2008 14:39, David Van Assche wrote:
>> the only option seems to seperate squeak from sugar, if sugar is to 
>> get into main or universe.
>
>thats not an option, but it's the (fine) status quo. there are these 
>things called "packages"...

I can only really speak about Debian, not Ubuntu. And I believe that is 
what Holger does too.

More exaclty, "Glucose" as a whole cannot enter Debian "main" as Debian 
dos not allow packages in main that depend on packages in non-free (or 
packages that work only when coupled with non-free stuff - so it is no 
solution to just "hide" the relation by dropping the dependency hint):


All of "Glucose" except Etoys" is in Debian "main".

The Squeak virtual machine is in Debian "main".

The Squeak image "Etoys" (the only one currently packaged officially for 
Debian) is in "non-free" due to ftpmasters judging it not possible for 
the security team to maintain throughout the (multiple year long) 
lifespan of a Debian release.

The Sugar activity "Etoys" is not yet packaged. When packaged, it will 
be in Debian "contrib" due to its dependency on the Etoys image in 
"non-free".


Hope that helps.


  - Jonas

Debian developer packaging Sugar officially for Debian, and helping 
others reuse the Debian packaging for non-Debian purposes, i.e. 
repackaging for Ubuntu.

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