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[Jason Heeris <jason.heeris@xxxxxxxxx>]

(Sorry for the delay, I've been on holiday.)

I have no objection to the packages (with my packaging) getting into the
official Debian/Ubuntu repos, but I'd rather not be the one doing the
lobbying. I tried a similar thing a few years ago and found it fruitless
and stressful, which is why I turned to using PPAs for distributing
software as I needed to (with apologies to Debian-actual users, who just
have to miss out). But if it happened, I'd happily notify people of changes
I make and accept changes from them as needed so the official packages
don't diverge.

So maybe the best solution is: I'll put the packages in my PPA, and support
them as needed. If the mactel support PPA is just somewhere to point people
for support, you can point them to my PPA too if you're satisfied with the
quality of what's in there. I asked because I didn't want to confuse users
and thus undermine your own efforts, but I don't think it will.

Cheers,
Jason



On 17 September 2013 09:07, cyberdork33 <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The ppa was originally created to hold packages for users to get the fixes
> they needed to run on macs that were not available in the normal repos. The
> support community could point those trying to run ubuntu on their mac to
> one catch all location. It was intended to get fixes for things into the
> normal repos eventually so they would not have to rely on the ppa. If the
> hfs-bless utility has patches that some users might need to get things
> working because that is not in the normal repos, then the mactel support
> ppa is a good spot for them, but you should probably lobby to get the
> packages into the standard repos too.
> —
> Ricky
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Jason Heeris <jason.heeris@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> So the other alternative, if people aren't that enthused about a group
>> PPA, is that I just create my own PPA with the few packages that I can test
>> out. I'm happy to do that as long as you are.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jason
>>
>> On 15 September 2013 21:58, cyberdork33 <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Your contributions are always welcome.
>>>
>>>  On Sep 14, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Jason Heeris <jason.heeris@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Okay, I somehow hit GMail's combination for sending that before I had
>>> finished it. That bodes well. Here's the rest of it...
>>>
>>> 1. The macfanctld utility had a couple of useful pull requests on
>>> Github, and the packaging needed a bit of updating. My efforts are here:
>>>
>>>  https://github.com/detly/macfanctld
>>>
>>> I've taken advantage of Debian's git-buildpackage workflow, and it's
>>> pretty trivial to update and upload new PPA packages for any Ubuntu distro.
>>>
>>> 2. The hfs-bless utility was essential for getting the Mac Mini's boot
>>> firmware to boot Ubuntu after removing Mac OSX. I packaged that up too:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/detly/mactel-boot
>>>
>>> If you're interested, I'll happily take responsibility for maintaining
>>> the packaging and PPA uploads; although I'd rather not take *sole*
>>> responsibility for the actual software itself, since I can't test it too
>>> thoroughly.
>>>
>>> Let me know.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jason Heeris
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