Re: [Denemo-devel] debian maintainer?

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 09:06 +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> Il giorno sab, 03/10/2009 alle 11.02 +0100, Richard Shann ha scritto:
> > On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 20:59 +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> > > Il giorno ven, 02/10/2009 alle 13.54 +0100, Richard Shann ha scritto:
> > > > On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 07:31 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:29:53 +0100
> > > > > Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > I have seen this:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/5e8677fb33173f9b
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > indicating a maintainer is needed for the debian package. Can/should
> > > > > > we respond?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I guess I could step up and do it. I am a bit spread thin though as it
> > > > > is. 
> > > > Yes - don't spread yourself any further. I think a non-programmer could
> > > > do this.
> > > 
> > > Not really so sure, but certainly a non-denemo programmer could.
> > > 
> > > > Though I am not sure what is involved and what benefit it would
> > > > be to Denemo.
> > > 
> > > Huge, I suppose, if you want to get a huge share of the potential
> > > userbase (though I recognize you're not obliged to see this as one of
> > > your targets, it would surprise me if you didn't).
> > > 
> > > > There is someone interested who has pushed 0.8.something
> > > > into Denemo,
> > > 
> > > me
> > > 
> > > > I don't recall the name.
> > > 
> > > Pietro Battiston
> > > 
> > > > Perhaps this notice is about some
> > > > process that is ongoing anyway, retiring Gunter Geiger who is not
> > > > responding (?)
> > > 
> > > Actually Richard, thanks for the tip since I had not noticed the package
> > > had been orphaned.
> > > 
> > > It was me who tried to contact Gunter, with (almost) no success; that's
> > > why I took the time to upload 8.8.0.
> > > 
> > > Since I had some problems, that had to do with libjack, the current
> > > packaging is somewhat overcomplicated, that's why I would be happy to
> > > package the next version of denemo, in a way cleaner and more suitable
> > > to be left to a new maintainer.
> > 
> > If there is anything we can do in our git that will make it easier
> > please say. 
> > 
> 
> 
> Actually, with some delay I remembered something else that I wanted to
> suggest you: in pixmaps/denemo.desktop, please
> - remove the line "Encoding=UTF-8" (see [0])
> - replace the line
>    Categories=GNOME;Application;AudioVideo;
>   with
>    Categories=GNOME;Audio;AudioVideo;Music;
>   (see [1])

This looks like the sort of change that could be put in the 0.8.10
release - Jeremiah, are you able to confirm that this is so, and if so,
can you do it?
Also - should we include the Education category as well, as the
educational games are starting to mature now? My reading of (1)
indicates that this should be ok:

Categories=GNOME;Audio;AudioVideo;Music;Education

Richard


> 
> [0]: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/1.0/apc.html
> [1]: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
> 
> This will slightly further simplify my Debian packaging work (allowing
> me to remove the last remaining patch).
> 
> thank you (but feel free to answer "just file a bug" if this is
> something you don't feel of doing immediately)
> 
> Pietro Battiston
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