Re: [Userops] Why is it hard to package libre web applications for distros?

[Laura Arjona Reina]

Hi

On 2 de mayo de 2015 05:13:25 GMT+02:00, Christopher Allan Webber 
<address@hidden> wrote:
>Why indeed?  Discuss!
>
>I have my own comments to weigh in here, but admittedly I'm new to the
>distro-packaging side, and I'd like to hear others weigh in, especially
>those who have or have attempted packaging libre web applications for
>distros.  How can we make things better?  How can we make things
>easier?
>Why is it so hard anyway?
>

>From my experience of "trying to convince people to package" (mediagoblin and 
>pump.io):

* Too many unpackaged dependencies. See 
https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Nodejs/Tasks/Pump.io

*  Two few people working on packaging them

* Upstream developing faster, when it's packaged, it's obsolete

Regards 

>I'll weigh in with a particular direction I think is challenging as a
>follow-up to this thread tomorrow morning, but I'm looking forward to
>hearing what others have to say!
>
> - Chris
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On 2 de mayo de 2015 05:13:25 GMT+02:00, Christopher Allan Webber 
<address@hidden> wrote:
>Why indeed?  Discuss!
>
>I have my own comments to weigh in here, but admittedly I'm new to the
>distro-packaging side, and I'd like to hear others weigh in, especially
>those who have or have attempted packaging libre web applications for
>distros.  How can we make things better?  How can we make things
>easier?
>Why is it so hard anyway?
>
>I'll weigh in with a particular direction I think is challenging as a
>follow-up to this thread tomorrow morning, but I'm looking forward to
>hearing what others have to say!
>
> - Chris
>_______________________________________________
>Userops mailing list
>address@hidden
>http://lists.mediagoblin.org/listinfo/userops

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