[Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 21:53, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>> On 18 June 2010 05:04, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
>>> It has been mentioned that by updating these dependencies, we'll have
>>> to build some more modules in jhbuild for distros such as Debian which
>>> won't have it for now in their current versions and that this will
>>> raise significantly the bar for contributing.
>>
>> If you wait for Debian you'll likely be waiting a long time.
>> My view: don't let it hold back. Make the change, hack jhbuild, and
>> put pressure on them to push the package updates.
>
> I agree with this, but I might have some Debian contributors that are
> interested in helping out with maintaining sugar and associated
> dependencies (yea, I know.... shocking that a Fedora person is talking
> to a Debian person :-D ) so with luck that might slowly start to
> improve.

Note that what was requested was having a policy of only using
dependencies available in Debian testing, not just in Debian in its
broader sense.

Regards,

Tomeu