[Pkg-xfce-commits] r666 - www

[Simon Huggins]

Author: huggie
Date: 2006-05-30 21:33:54 +0000 (Tue, 30 May 2006)
New Revision: 666

Modified:
   www/index.html
Log:
Update the webpages a bit and some grammar/wording fixes.


Modified: www/index.html
===================================================================
--- www/index.html	2006-05-23 08:50:01 UTC (rev 665)
+++ www/index.html	2006-05-30 21:33:54 UTC (rev 666)
@@ -40,8 +40,7 @@
 </div>
 
 <h3>News</h3>
-<p>Last packaged Xfce version: <code>4.3.90.1</code>.</p>
-<p>Last uploaded Xfce version: <code>4.2.3.2</code>.</p>
+<p>Last uploaded Xfce version: <code>4.3.90.1</code>.</p>
 
 <h3>General information</h3>
 <p>
@@ -56,9 +55,10 @@
 
 <h3>Contacts</h3>
 <p>
-We coordinate our efforts on a mailing list. The
-<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xfce-devel/">list
-archives</a> are available.
+If you're interested in helping with development, you've found some terrible
+bug and you'd like to NMU or you wonder if there isn't some new fangled
+technique we could use in our packaging to make the world a better place do
+tell us.  Either send a message to the list or pop by on IRC.
 </p>
 
 <p>
@@ -66,8 +66,15 @@
 </p>
 
 <p>
+We coordinate our efforts on a mailing list. The
+<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-xfce-devel/">list
+archives</a> are available.
+</p>
+
+<p>
 There is also an IRC channel on <a href="http://freenode.net">freenode</a>
-called <code>#debian-xfce</code>. Everyone is welcome to join the discussion.
+called <code>#debian-xfce</code>. Developers and users alike are more than
+welcome to join the discussion.
 </p>
 
 <h3>Subversion repository</h3>
@@ -84,7 +91,7 @@
 <code>svn co svn+ssh://username@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-xfce/</code>
 <br />
 
-Obiouvsly, replace 'username' with your <a href="http://alioth.debian.org/">alioth</a> 
+Obviously, replace 'username' with your <a href="http://alioth.debian.org/">alioth</a> 
 username.
 </p>
 
@@ -105,9 +112,11 @@
 
 <h3>Package building</h3>
 <p>
-We only keep the <code>debian/</code> directory of xfce packages under
-subversion and handle upstream source code modifications through
-<code>CDBS</code>'s <code>simple-patchsys</code>.
+We only keep the <code>debian/</code> directory of xfce packages in
+subversion.  Our packages which use <code>CDBS</code> use its
+<code>simple-patchsys</code> when patches to upstream are needed.  Otherwise
+we tend to use dpatch though upstream has an excellent record of accepting
+sane patches.
 </p>
 
 <p>
@@ -138,17 +147,21 @@
 </p>
 <p>
 If you want to rebuild Xfce entirely you can use the pbuilder script
-available in scripts/pbuilder/pdebuild-sources.sh. It creates a sid
-chroot, then builds everything in this chroot, using package previously
-built for dependencies. The script takes an argument, which can be:</p>
+available in scripts/pbuilder/pdebuild-sources.sh though you probably want
+to change the MIRROR= line in pdebuild.conf to point to a local apt-proxy
+first. The script creates a sid chroot, then builds everything in this
+chroot, using previously built packages to satisfy dependencies. The script
+takes an argument, which can be:</p>
 <ul>
   <li>desktop (build every desktop package)</li>
-  <li>goodies (build every goodies package, you should build desktop packages before)</li>
+	<li>goodies (build every goodies package, you should build desktop
+	packages first)</li>
   <li>clean (clean every package built)</li>
 </ul>
-The script resume itself where it was interrupted. If you want to only
+The script resumes itself where it was interrupted. If you want to only
 rebuild a package, just remove the xfce/build/&lt;packagename&gt; file
 and restart ./pdebuild-sources.sh
+</p>
 
 <h3>Legacy information</h3>
 <p>Old information about xfce4 in Debian can be found on
@@ -158,7 +171,8 @@
 
 <h3>Binary repositories</h3>
 <p>
-Packages are available on sid/unstable and etch/testing distributions. You can install xfce4 as follow:
+Packages are available in sid/unstable, etch/testing and sarge/stable
+distributions. You can install xfce4 as follow:
 </p>
 
 <p>
@@ -168,9 +182,10 @@
 	</code>
 </p>
 
-<p>Recently released Xfce 4.4Beta1 (4.3.90.1) isn't yet available in
-Debian unstable because of libs in NEW. Source and binary packages for
-amd64, i386 and powerpc are available at:
+<p>Recently released Xfce 4.4Beta1 (4.3.90.1) should be available in 
+Debian unstable but we may release more cutting edge bits to Corsac's
+repository as below.  Source and binary packages for amd64, i386 and powerpc
+are available at:
 </p>
 
 <p>