Re: FVWM: fvwm for debian

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:11:01 +0000

On 03 Jun 2003 16:40:10 +0200, Johan Svedberg wrote:
>
> * Jun 03 16:18 Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>:
> > On 03 Jun 2003 15:27:18 +0200, Fernando Poza wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm new in the list, but not in fvwm. I'm running debian in my box,
> > > and I wanted to update to the last stable fvwm version. But the
> > > thing is that it seems there is no debian package with
> > > fvwm.(fvwm*.deb) in fvwm.org.
> > >
> > > Am I right?, or I'm just not looked for correctly. Then, where can I
> > > find it?.
> > >
> > > Otherwise, I'm thinking in packagin it for debian.
> > >
> > > Let's see.
> >
> > I already said this several times in the past.
> >
> > If someone creates a clean procedure "make deb-dist release=1" and
> > "make deb-this" that does exactly what "rpm-dist" and "rpm-this" does,
> > it will be included in the fvwm sources. Then everyone, for example
> > yourself could build deb from any tar.gz or cvs automatically in
> > minutes.
> >
> > Of course the procedure should not add any extra files to deb (or as
> > less as possible) not to be different much from installing from the
> > sources. It may also use the same configure options that the rpm
> > procedure does.
>
> Maybe this could be taken care of by the current maintainer of the fvwm
> Debian package?
>
> johan_at_bettan:~ $ apt-cache show fvwm | grep '^Maintainer:'
> Maintainer: Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha_at_debian.org>

We are speaking about the clean automatical procedure of creating deb
from any tar.gz or cvs files. Something that we build may distribute
together with tar.gz on every release, and something that any deb user
can build himself. For example every rpm user may build rpm for his
system(s) for 3 years now, like this:

  make rpm-dist mparams='CFLAGS="-O3 -g"' cparams='--disable-xinerama'

If Alexander wants to provide such automatic procedure to the developers
(without adding any hook files, that may be packed in fvwm-debhooks deb),
it is ok. But until now he did not do this, so any other Debian user who
really wants immediate access to debs with any new release may volunteer.

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Tue Jun 03 2003 - 11:14:43 BST

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