<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Technically wouldnt pulling from a PPA be easier? In the sense the major part of the work is done in regards to packaging, and it might need a tweak here or there in regards to getting it to conform with debian requirements and thats it? isnt thats whats being done with mysql 5.5 its being pulled from ubuntu 12.04 and migrated to debian and transitioned that way?</div><div><br></div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On May 3, 2012, at 7:18 AM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Jonathan,<br><br>It is too early to decide if we're going to build package for Wheezy<br>backports. Eventually we might consider doing it and if by that time<br>you're still will be willing to help, you're welcome.<br><br>Fresh binaries will be in 'testing' and let me say again clearly, that<br>our(my) work flow will not include Launchpad PPA.<br>It is unnecessary and we have all the resources we need in Debian.<br>I can't stop you from duplicating the effort in PPA.<br><br>Regards,<br>Dmitry.<br><br>On 3 May 2012 14:44, Jonathan Aquilina <<a href="mailto:eagles051387@gmail.com">eagles051387@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Dimitry<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">My idea is more to provide up to date packages for users in between<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">releases. Usually when people come into the workbench channel on free node,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">we usually ask them to try the latest version to see if they have the same<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">issue which for the most part is usually fixed.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The ppa could be used to ensure that users end up with the latest version in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">between debian releases.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Regards<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jonathan Aquilina<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On May 3, 2012, at 3:49 AM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hi Jonathan,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">You're always welcome to send your patches for collab-maint repository<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and/or report bugs (hopefully with proposed solution).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">As far as mysql-workbench packaging is concerned, we have no interest<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">or motivation or time to track your progress in LP-PPA.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Regards,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dmitry.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 2 May 2012 23:52, Jonathan Aquilina <<a href="mailto:eagles051387@gmail.com">eagles051387@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">My question is more along the lines if i make packages on ubuntu and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">available via a launchpad PPA can debian users benefit from the ppa as well?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 02/05/12 15:50, Nicholas Bamber wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jonathan,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> The repository is in collab-maint so is not part of the MySQL team's<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">portfilio. You need to talk to the maintainers who I am CC'ing. I hope they<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">are subcribed to this mailing list as it seems a reasonable place to discuss<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">anything MySQL/MariaDB/Percona related from a Debian perspective.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 02/05/12 14:32, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks Nich.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I have a question though. If i am running kubuntu, can i still help with<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">packaging stuff such as mysql workbench for instance for debian, for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">instance creating packages in a launchpad ppa of newer versions of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">workbench which get released between one debian / ubuntu release and the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">next or would I need to be on a debian machine?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 02/05/12 15:29, Nicholas Bamber wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://packages.debian.org/sid/mysql-workbench">http://packages.debian.org/sid/mysql-workbench</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 02/05/12 14:19, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hey guys.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I know you guys are working on transitioning to mysql 5.5 for the next<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">release. What is the status of getting mysql workbench included in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">next release. Ubuntu 12.04 already has it and could that be used to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">transition the next release away from the end of lifed mysql<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">administrator and query browser?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Regards<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jonathan<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">pkg-mysql-maint mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:pkg-mysql-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org">pkg-mysql-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-mysql-maint">http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-mysql-maint</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>