[Sugar-devel] error building etoys in a debian distro

[Alvar Maciel]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> Hi Alvar,
>
> Ohh, silly me: I misread the version number in your first post and
> thought your interest was in that old branch of Sugar.
>
> Debian maintains packages for newer branches of Sugar as well. The plan
> currently is to release 0.84, 0.88 and 0.94 with next stable Debian.
good news!
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> I wholeheartedly agree.  Someone needs to do it, though. :-)
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> I work on it for Debian, and your help is dearly appreciated!
>
> You are helping already: Knowing that someone "out there" appreciates
> the Sugar packages and are in need of them kept up-to-date helps me
> prioritize that work over other of my many pet projects in Debian.
>
> (lack of steady updates to Sugar in Debian is an indication that a) I am
> doing most work alone, and b) I feel that noone cares so have poured
> more love in other projects)

good observations: in this case, you don't have to feel alone no more
:D i'm learning to help to the community and the manteiners

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>> > Would be awesome if you could see the benefit of joining us in
>> > improving those packages distributed globally instead of locally
>> > struggling with jh-build.
That's the idea, i get my degree of teacher in the next month and i
will put more time learning debian and the way to keep sugar updated
in debian.
> Great!
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>> If you can coach me, I have tree monts to doit.
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> I'd be delighted to couch you!
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> I am travelling currently, so expect me to be slow in responding and
> often too distracted to dive deep into problems you may uncover.
>
> If curious, this is my journey: http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011
Excelente! That's a really nice trip! Don't worry about the time... is
on our side now :D
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>> I create a git repository (remeber i'm new in this too...)
>> https://github.com/alvarmaciel/packg-deb-sugar to begin can I send to
>> you the advances of this work?
>
> Good idea to work separately at first, but please join the Debian team
> and let us continue this discussion not discretely but on the dedicated
> mailinglist - and let's get you quickly in shape to work directly on the
> official Debian packages, to put your efforts into use globally :-)
ok!
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> Please (create an account and) join our team here:
> https://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-olpc/
I'm there since the last five minutes :D
>
> ...and join our mailinglist here:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-olpc-devel
do ít
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> ...and when ready post to that list and we can take it from there.
ok
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> If you run into problems, you are quite welcome to contact me directly,
> but generally it is more fruitful to work transparently via our
> mailinglist.
ok
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> Looking forward to work with you,
>
>  - Jonas
Thanks for all
Alvar