[IAEP] Sugar packages for non-mainstream distros

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:05:16AM -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>> > just some thoughts and some practices (specific?) of Sugar packaging process
>> > http://sugarlabs.org/go/DeploymentTeam/jhconvert
>>
>> Can you add something about testing these packages and reporting bugs
>> in Sugar on specific distributions?
>
> About Gentoo, in fact, I'll be very surprised if Gentoo is popular among sugar
> end users, but I use Gentoo and furthermore it helps me test sugar in various
> environments: I've built sugar (both 0.82 and 0.83), at first sight, it works
> - does basic operations (no errors in logs)
>
> But my current focus is altlinux - its a local Russian distro. The main purpose
> of porting sugar on altlinux is the fact that it takes part in state-program "FOSS
> for schools" - there is school-specific distro. I've uploaded sugar-fructose to
> unstable altlinux's repo (the same status like on Gentoo) and work now on Russian
> localization (whole this week). After back porting to school branch I suspect
> broader feedback

Sounds very good, please keep us posted of your progress (and problems!).

Just to check, altlinux is based on Mandriva, right? If so, how is
being coordinated the packaging between the different mandriva-like
distros?

Regards,

Tomeu