[schooltool-dev] Getting source tarballs added to debian repository.

[William Grant]

On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 11:29 +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:57:14AM +1000, William Grant wrote:
> > On Tue, August 7, 2007 9:29 am, Matthew Gallagher wrote:
> > > Is it possible to get the source tarballs added to the debian repository?
> > > It would really make my life easier.
> > 
> > I was about to ask the same thing here, after asking a number of times
> > over the past few days on #schooltool (nobody seems to be around in my
> > timezone). The machine I'm wanting to deploy SchoolTool on is amd64, and
> > some of the packages are arch-dependent.
> 
> They should be there. Exactly which repository are you talking about and
> which tarballs are missing?

http://ftp.schooltool.org/schooltool/archives/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/source/python/ is one directory that shows the problem. A source package that has a .diff.gz needs a .orig.tar.gz to be useful, yet they are missing.

> Ideally, of course, all these packages should be available from ubuntuHaving it sitting on our unmetdeps lists for two releases is 
> proper.

Ideally, and that needs to happen in the next couple of weeks if we're
going to have a working SchoolTool for Gutsy. It has been sitting on our
unmetdeps lists for quite a while now.

--
William Grant
Ubuntu Developer - www.ubuntu.com
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