[Pkg-crosswire-devel] Debian/Ubuntu Bibletime 2.8.0 packages (was: BibleTime 2.8.0 released! )

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 26 November 2010 23:20, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm> wrote:
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> On 11/26/2010 01:49 PM, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
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>> The BibleTime team is proud to announce the immediate availability of
>> BibleTime version 2.8.0, which is the first full release in the stable
>> 2.8 series of BibleTime.
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> Great!
>
> Initial Ubuntu packages for Lucid, Maverick (and Natty, but as of right
> now the Natty build is failing, looks like something related to a new QT
> or qtwebkit version breaking the CMake script??  I will investigate this
> later!) have been created and uploaded to the developer-testing PPA.  I
> hope to put them into the main pkgcrosswire PPA in a few days.
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> Anyone able to test these packages on Ubuntu, please do so :)
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> So... how do we get this software (and SWORD 1.6.2) into Debian and
> Natty sanely, with the Debian Squeeze freeze still in place?
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> I think we probably need to:
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Well I was contacted by Ubuntu Desktop and Mozilla devs. The former
want xiphos 3.1.4 for gtkhtml 3.32 transition, the latter for
xulrunner-2.0 transition.

So my preposed actions are

(0.0) Xiphos 3.1.4 in experimental

(0.1) Sync to Natty

>  (1) Get SWORD 1.6.2 into Debian experimental

(1.1) Rebuild xiphos against sword-1.6.2

>  (2) Get BibleTime 2.8.0 into experimental
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>  (3) Sync all of those into Ubuntu Natty

Ubuntu devs didn't to sponsor my direct upload of xiphos into natty.
They said "Oh since you are the same people doing it, get it into
experimental, and we'll sync from there"

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> Is this the "correct" way to go?  Is there a better way?  Can we
> actually get things into Debian unstable at this point, or not?
>

We can't actually get things into unstable. Unstable is for "testing"
packages RC fixes to migrate to testing.

> I'm about to update my Debian VM and try building SWORD 1.6.2 and
> BibleTime 2.8.0 there...
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> Jonathan

Are you still not using pbuilder / sbuild / chroot? =)