Re: [Denemo-devel] debian maintainer?

[Jeremiah Benham]

Ok. I will fix this.

Jeremiah


On Oct 17, 2009, at 2:53 AM, Richard Shann <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> 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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