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[Pim Vullers <pim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/06/2014 12:00 AM, Cameron Norman wrote:
> * libunity9 dependency: Pantheon uses libunity for a lot of things, and
> it is not available in Debian. I do not understand how feasible it would
> be to package in Debian, but seeing how a lot of elementary software
> uses libunity, I think we should encourage the packaging of it, instead
> of a patching out of the dependency.

Can you list which packages use it, and what benefit it would give for
keeping it on debian? I successfully made libunity optional in the apps
I packaged for Gentoo and am now running fine without it.

> El Wed, 5 de Feb 2014 a las 10:32 AM, Daniel Foré
> <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>> Hey Raphael,
>>
>> That's not a bad idea even for just being able to package pantheon on
>> Debian. I wonder if we can get someone with a Debian system to try
>> installing Pantheon and see what issues they encounter
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Daniel Foré
>> elementaryos.org
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Raphael Isemann <teemperor@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:teemperor@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     As we are on the topic: What bugs are left before one could run the
>>     whole elementary software stack on debian? I think the indicators
>>     where one major problem. Would be cool if someone (*looks at
>>     shnatsel*) could write up what is missing and we file some bugs
>>     with a
>>     "debian" tag. Mainly because it is asked quite often and it would be
>>     cool if we could redirect people to a bug-collection with some good
>>     bug-descriptions.
>>
>>     Regarding all that topic about NSA and so on, you might want to check
>>     out this talk too:
>>     http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5713_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201312301130_-_to_protect_and_infect_part_2_-_jacob.html
>>
>>
>>     - Raphael
>>
>>     2014-02-05 Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>     > Tristan, it's not that simple and fact is, Debian or even the
>>     upstream
>>     > projects are unlikely to be NSA-proof. You should really watch
>>     the recording
>>     > of "NSA operation ORCHESTRA" keynote from FOSDEM as soon as it's
>>     uploaded.
>>     >
>>     > --
>>     > Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
>>     >
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