[Spd-devel] Would spd in debian be cool with spd's authors?

[Daniel C. <dc...@po...>]

A little while ago I did a quick hack to get a .deb of spd using epm [1].

I'd like to now work on a proper policy-compliant .deb package for spd
and try to get it included in debian and ubuntu (I'm not a debian
developer, but have many friends who are so doubt I would have trouble
finding a sponsor). Would that be cool with the authors of spd?

This wouldn't replace the work in [1] as epm can be made to produce
packages for a lot of packages other than .deb.

Other than including a updated version of the extra doc/examples in
[1] and creating a README.Debian file, I'd probably create a shell
script wrapper for spd, and add a /etc/default/spd file with optional
user exits to be run before/after each spd invocation (so a site could
force an svn update before each spd run and a svn commit after each
run).

I'd base off of current svn trunk unless people would prefer I wait
for the 0.2-release.

Also FYI I pimped spd on sage-members mailing list [2] :-)

[1] [ 2132740 ] Add packaging to spd via epm
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2132740&group_id=230162&atid=1079429

[2] Re: [SAGE] Multi-user password safe..
http://www.sage.org/lists/sage-members-archive/2008/msg01490.html

Cheers,
-- 
Daniel JB Clark # http://opensysadmin.com