[Hamara-devel] blog post on /etc/apt/sources.list, debian-gnome as well as Jessie RC2.

[shirish शिरीष]

Hi all,
Put up a longish post on /etc/apt/sources.list, debian-gnome as well
as Jessie RC2. This would also be a sort of longish post as well,
sorry for that.

See https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/etcaptsources-list-gnome-3-16-jessie-rc2/

The motivation is that it helps hamara team in getting either
debian-gnome or/and Debian Jessie and wherever it can help us.

It's going to be quite a while before we can get things upto speed,
the first thing is obviously getting the wiki in-place (hopefully in a
day or two if we are able to do that) and then get things started in
hamara as well as packaging some bits in debian.

The best way would be uploading libraries in debian-experimental,
AFAIK the way is :-

a. Get all the libraries uploaded to debian-experimental, first those
which have least dependencies.

b. Test the libraries to see if anything breaks, patching them up so they work.

c.Then when we have enough libraries, start with packaging
applications which can use the new libraries and some old libraries if
there are, sort of mixed.

d. When all the new libraries are there, do a NM (non-maintainer)
upload where just the dependencies are changed over to new libraries
and see how that works.

e. Continue testing them and move them to unstable/sid when enough
testing has been done (this will happen only when jessie is released,
till that time all will happen in experimental only.)

f. Finally migrate to testing i.e. jessie + 1.

It's possible that Jessie + 1 might have GNOME 3.18 , 3.20, 3.22 or
some other version depending upon number of packagers, testers, QA,
planning etc. Debian-gnome is one of the better teams in Debian unlike
debian-kde which needed help (and did an RFH - Request for Help)
sometime back or debian-mate which is also short of people.

That doesn't mean that debian-gnome team would't love to have more
people, it simply means they usually get it packaged but takes time,
while for other teams whether a particular release would happen or not
is always up in the air.

For e.g. I asked the debian-mate on IRC recently and they have decided
to skip mate 1.10 release and go straight to 1.12 as they feel it
would be better to use their packaging skills as and when 1.12 is
released, even when 1.8 was released it took them around 4-5 months to
get it packaged in Debian.

Look forward to see hamara-release soonish.
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          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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