[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:38:27PM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote:
>On 2/11/09, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:24:20AM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote:
>>>On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> 
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Debian POV: Someone needs to volunteer packaging 
>>>> "sugar-etoys-activity". Drop an email to 
>>>> debian-olpc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org .
>>>>
>>>> Ubuntu POV: Someone needs to volunteer hacking[1] together a sugar 
>>>> activity package until a Debian package can be adopted. More info 
>>>> at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam
>>>>
>>>> I recommend helping as "upstream" as possible instead of only 
>>>> locally for Ubuntu. YMMV.

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>Maybe we're just thick, but neither Morgan nor I were able to use your
>git README.packaging to upgrade a package to a new upstream version.
>It doesn't matter wheter we were upgrading sugar-base or Pippy.
>
>It seems that the file is missing some steps; moreover, how can we be
>expected to package new activities with git when even the steps for
>maintaining existing ones are lacking.

Maybe it is me who are thick. Let's see if I understand it correctly:

1) You consider packaging Pippy and sugar-base my way equally complex.

2) Failure to understand my way of sugar-base packaging is your reason 
for not packaging *anything* in *any* way through Debian.

Or did I miss something?



  - Jonas

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