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[Amos Blanton <amos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Hi Michael,

It's great that you'd like to help get Scratch running properly in Debian.
AFAIK, no one else is working on this. Here's the link to a page with 
information about Scratch on Linux (which includes links to the source).

http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_on_Linux

I know that Debian uses slightly different versioning. Perhaps we should 
make a fork in our SVN repository?

However, if we ended up with an official Debian package that works fine 
in Ubuntu as well, that would be satisfactory.

Amos
Scratch Team
http://scratch.mit.edu/


On 10/05/2010 05:01 AM, John Maloney wrote:
> Hi, Michael.
>
> Thanks for clarifying that you were volunteering to help; that's 
> wonderful!
>
> We'll have to wait until Amos gets back next Tuesday (Oct 12) to get 
> an answer to your question about the status of others working on a 
> Debian package.
>
> Note that the Scratch source license includes a "non-commercial" 
> clause that disqualifies Scratch from being included on some of 
> Ubuntu's repositories. I suspect the same is probably true for Debian. 
> We're okay with that, and it is still be very useful to make a Debian 
> package available to folks, even if it can't be included in "open 
> source only" repositories.
>
> Thanks again for offering to help!
>
>     -- John
>
>
> On Oct 4, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Michael Hanke wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:39:10PM +0200, John Maloney wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > Please understand, since we give Scratch away for free, we don't
> > > have a lot of resources. And since there are many flavors of Linux
> > > we were hoping that if we created an Ubuntu package then volunteers
> > > from the community would port that to other flavors of Linux. I
> > > think someone is already working on a Debian package but if you
> > > would like to help out, let me and Amos know.
> >
> > Just to make sure you got me right:
> >
> >
> > I was able to get scratch running fine. I am volunteering to port it
> > probably to Debian ;-) I just want to make sure that you are fine with
> > that, that nobody else is working on it right now (to prevent wasteful
> > duplication) and you are aware of this effort.
> >
> > @Amos: I'd be glad if you could contact me regarding the status of the
> > packaging once you are back.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > --
> > GPG key:  1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke
> > http://mih.voxindeserto.de