[q-lang-users] Debian (and Gentoo?) distribution

[David B. <dh...@gm...>]

Hi,

It doesn't seem that anyone has yet taken up an effort to get Pure or
Q into the official Debian package lists.  So, unless someone else has
a special interest, I was thinking of volunteering to be a package
maintainer and seek out a sponsor [1] to get the packages into Debian
(and hopefully propagate into Ubuntu too...?).  I also might look into
getting this into Gentoo Portage too.  The other major distro is
Fedora, which I am not too keen on (Can't just untar a stage2 and go?
Can't just run debootstrap?  You mean I have to install from a CD?!?!?
 And why don't the scripts make any sense? :-P).  This would probably
be the most responsible thing I've done in my life, so I'm a little
nervous about the commitment.  But can it really be _that_ bad?

Would this effort be encouraged, or is someone else already planning
to tackle this?

-David

[1] http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html