Test release of USR

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:05:51PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:36:03PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
>>>
>>> The most interesting aspect of this job is that we have abstracted 
>>> out almost all of the differences from debian.  For the core 
>>> packages,  we are use nearly standard upstream packages.
>>
>> Could you elaborate on this?  I do not understand what you write 
>> above.
>
>We are trying to use completely stock Debian packages.  We  have:
>1. Created a USR-meta package to store gconf settings.  This will
>allow hardware resellers to adopt USR to their machines without
>touching the other packages.
>2. Most other changes are due to path or version mismatches.
>3. All other changes are done in such a way that they can be pushed 
>upstream

Sounds neat!


>We are sitting on the browse and write issues because there are no
>good solutions that compile with the three guideline listed above.  I
>don't want to diverge with debian unless we have a sane plan in place
>for re-merging as soon as possible.

Feel free to join the OLPC team at Alioth and let's work together on 
those issues - if you are not certain that it is Ubuntu-specific bugs.

Also, you might want to get involved in that Browse issue that I brought 
up at the sugar-dev list recently - with the Debian xulrunner maintainer 
offering to help improve sugar-hulahop code but noone Upstream stepping 
in to work on it.  I suspect such code cleanup might help resolve 
problems in Ubuntu too.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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