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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/29/2016 9:17 AM, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 29.06.2016 15:03, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> 
>> Sounds like we need separate installation instructions for Debian and
>> it's derivatives and the PPA and some helpful notes about the differences.
> 
> I'm going to poke Jean-Samuel and Georges about this. It is a rather
> annoying state of affairs. JS's packages should probably learn to pull
> in the libraries (because that is what Fabrizio stumbled over), and both
> sets of packages need to be aware of each other and declare conflicts so
> the other is uninstalled.
> 
> Ideally, we'd merge them both into one, so we can handle the older
> Ubuntu releases as simple backports of the existing Debian package.
> 
> There is a lot of duplicate effort here. Also, IMO users should stay
> away from daily builds unless they have a good reason.
> 
>    Simon
> 

Sounds like a plan.  Thanks for taking care of this.

Wayne