Re: FVWM: fvwm for debian

From: Klaus Umbach <Klaus.Umbach_at_doppelhertz.homelinux.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 19:47:45 +0200

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 05:25:26PM +0200, Fernando Poza wrote:
> What sounds weird to me, is that having available a debian package for
> fvwm 2.4.6-2, which means that somebody has already made the effort, the
> work has been stoped.


Here in testing I have 2.4.15-2

Klaus

>
> So, it looks like fvwm package has become orphaned, or whatever way they
> call this situation in debian.
>
> So, before thinking seriously in packagin fvwm, I'll ask debian guys.
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> Fernando
>
> >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.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Mikhael.
> >--
> >> 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.
> >
>
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