Re: [Lpr-discuss] lpr in Debian

[Nick M. <ni...@va...>]

begin  A Mennucc1 quotation:
> I am a (new) Debian mantainer and I would like to package all your
> software for Debian
> 
> is it ok?

	Absolutely!

> I see that some older versions where already packaged by "Joey Hess"
> <jo...@de...> but there is no package for earlier versions,
> neither in the Debian archives

	Check out http://lpr.sourceforge.net/debian

	I've got some preliminary packages up there, including a
task-gnulpr.  I've tried to append a -ppd to packages that may
conflict, but I haven't really polished these packages to a proper
shine yet.

	There are source archives up there as well, so you can apt-get
src them.  I've only been building on potato so far.

> if it is ok that I package your stuff, I have a proposal: I will
> prepend gpr- to the name of all (or most) of the packages for
> Debian: so the names will be
>  
>  gpr-lpr
>  gpr-snmpkit
>  gpr-printfilters
>  ...
>  
> this way, the packages will be easily grouped by the Debian
> packaging GUIs; (and moreover I cannot use the name "lpr" for a
> package, anyway: it is used by the classical lpr BSD package)

	That may be a good idea.  I'd love to have an official Debian
release of this stuff, and I know the rest of the group would as well.
We'll have to discuss naming conventions, among other things.  Perhaps
it would be good to sign on to debian-mentor or debian-devel to
discuss policy.

	I, for one, would enjoy having the debian BTS entry as well,
since I'd like to fold may of the policy bugs back into the codebase
(I'm an FHS nut, for one).

	I'm actually on a day off (packing and moving) so i won't be
checking my mail frequently.  Ben Woodard <be...@va...> is likely
more responsive.  I'll probably check my mail once a day at this
point.

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Nick Moffitt, Professional Services