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[Amos Blanton <amos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having tried to get the Scratch package into Lucid, I've learned a lot about
the process. Unfortunately, it sounds like we would have needed to start
submitting / REVUing about 2 weeks ago. I met an extremely helpful and
friendly MOTU called persia - but they said even they couldn't get it in if
they owned it at this point. (Officially, things are frozen in about a 1/2
hour from now or so).

I wish I'd started the REVU process earlier! Turns out we could have easily
added the improved plugin later - an easy fix once we had all the packaging
issues worked out.

There are, however, 3 more weeks until Debian's feature freeze. And if we
get in there, we'll get put into future Ubuntu releases automagically. And
meanwhile of course we have the PPA - and I think I'll add the package to
our downloads page soon. So all and all it'll be about like it is for users
of Windows and Mac.

Oh - and a MOTU helped me fix (I think) the bug that was causing problems
with installation in Kubuntu. Still need to test things though - but it
seems likely to work better.

To Do next: isolate the source for the package into a tarball so it can be
easily packaged for any distro. That's going to take a little work...

Scratch On!
Amos


On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Derek O'Connell <doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  I will be back on-line for a few hours in an hr or so. Will try to figure
> it out between us then.
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> On 17/02/2010 19:23, Amos Blanton wrote:
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> Hi All -
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> It's looking like we started a bit too late to get into multiverse - alas.
> Had I known how complex the process was, I would have gotten started
> earlier!
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> Currently the major roadblock has to do with incorrect versioning. Our
> package was originally a native debian package (I think because Mako's
> original plan was to push to Debian first?), and now it seems it should be
> non-native. The conversion might be trivial for someone with more experience
> in these matters -- it isn't for me.
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> Here's the gist of it as expressed by a motu on ubuntu-motu irc at freenode:
> ". just generate a proper tarball out of pristine svn sources (svn export,
> tar -czf) and amend the version in debian/changelog to use
> <upstreamversion>-0ubuntu1
> (11:44:04 AM) hyperair: where <upstreamversion> is from
> scratch_<upstreamversion>.
> orig.tar.gz"
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> If anyone out there can do this and coordinate the rest of the necessary
> changes to the control / rules files, etc., the source is here:https://www.assembla.com/spaces/scratchonlinux/trac_subversion_tool
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> -Amos
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Amos