Debian Bug report logs - #463807
RFH: wxwidgets2.8 -- help for wxwidgets2.8 is appreciated

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Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

Following this afternoon's discussion on #debian-devel, I'm filing
this RFH bug to note that Ron, the wxwidgets2.6 maintainer, does
encourage people wanting to actively work on getting 2.8 into Debian
to do so.

Bear in mind that there are lots of open issues that should be
tackled, preferably in cooperation with upstream. Starting with an
experimental upload is probably a good idea.

Ron is willing to grant alioth/git access.

(Filing on wnpp/wxwidgets2.6 for additional visibility.)

Thanks,
Christoph

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Hi,

For anyone who wants to help Ron et al., or just follow along at home, here are
some links of interest:

Devel is apparently focused at Debian's Git server, and it's alive.
Look for "freewx" projects at http://git.debian.org/

Also there is a project page on Alioth, but AFAICT it's inactive.
  http://alioth.debian.org/projects/freewx/
  CVS:
    http://alioth.debian.org/plugins/scmcvs/cvsweb.php/?cvsroot=freewx
  Freewx-maint mailing list (no posts)
    http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freewx-maint

It was a bit of trouble to find as git's search is non-existant AFAICT and
Alioth's search needs a min of 3 chars, and "wx" is two. The vital clue
was that "freewx" was the needed search term and that they did exist.

And now for 2.8 there is 
  http://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/wxwidgets28.git/

This bug's URL:
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403237
Some debian-devel mailing list history:
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/114189/focus=115196
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/120296
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/122474
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/124238

3rd party package curve: (note first "please package 2.6.3" wish came ~May'7)
  http://apt.wxwidgets.org/stats/

wx3.0 delivery time:  (weeks? years?)
  http://wxwidgets.blogspot.com/2007/11/looking-forward-to-wxwidgets-3.html
depends who you ask I guess, no idea which page is the more current:
  http://www.wxwidgets.org/develop/roadmap.htm

regards,
Hamish

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I want to be co-maintainer of wxwidgets2.8 package. In Ubuntu I've packaged 2.8.6.1 (-0ubuntu1) and 2.8.7.1 (-0ubuntu1) versions and I think I did a good job.
Thanks
Devid Filoni

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Hi,

I gladly want to help (comaintain) with wxWidgets. I have done much 
programming on the Windows and Linux platform. Dont have experiences
with Python...

If wanted, I will take the maintainership if wxWidgets in a while.

gr,
Willem

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Hi
i use wxpython for various python project.
I build the wxWidgets packages  version 2.8.9.1 for debian unstable
(www.pytc.org / debian)
I would be happy to assist you.

Ghido
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I will help with this, in hopes that a new version will be more stable
and fix the libwx-perl FTBFS bugs. Padre upstream strongly recommends
(by not allowing installation with older versions, unless we patch the
build system, which is what we did) the next version of wxwidgets
after what we have, because the version we have is "buggy".

Despite my only exposure to wxwidgets being through the Perl bindings,
and only using them since last week, I will be willing to work on this
package in the long term to keep it in shape for Padre.

I can probably help with RC bug fixing, upgrading to new upstream
versions, reviewing and applying patches, fixing trivial bugs,
forwarding/triaging bugs, and keeping the packaging in good shape, but
probably won't be very helpful for anything that requires a lot of
knowledge of wxwidgets, C++, or Python, since I don't know these.

Adeodato, may I start working and commit to the Git repository?

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Ryan Niebur
ryanryan52@gmail.com

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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 03:36:06PM -0700, Ryan Niebur wrote:
> I will help with this, in hopes that a new version will be more stable
> and fix the libwx-perl FTBFS bugs. Padre upstream strongly recommends
> (by not allowing installation with older versions, unless we patch the
> build system, which is what we did) the next version of wxwidgets
> after what we have, because the version we have is "buggy".
> 
> Despite my only exposure to wxwidgets being through the Perl bindings,
> and only using them since last week, I will be willing to work on this
> package in the long term to keep it in shape for Padre.
> 
> I can probably help with RC bug fixing, upgrading to new upstream
> versions, reviewing and applying patches, fixing trivial bugs,
> forwarding/triaging bugs, and keeping the packaging in good shape, but
> probably won't be very helpful for anything that requires a lot of
> knowledge of wxwidgets, C++, or Python, since I don't know these.
> 
> Adeodato, may I start working and commit to the Git repository?
> 

oops, I guess I should ask Ron instead since he's the admin for the
alioth project. Ron, can you add me to the project? (ryan52-guest in
alioth).

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Ryan Niebur
ryanryan52@gmail.com

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+ Ryan Niebur (Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:36:06 -0700):

> I will help with this, in hopes that a new version will be more stable
> and fix the libwx-perl FTBFS bugs. Padre upstream strongly recommends
> (by not allowing installation with older versions, unless we patch the
> build system, which is what we did) the next version of wxwidgets
> after what we have, because the version we have is "buggy".

> Despite my only exposure to wxwidgets being through the Perl bindings,
> and only using them since last week, I will be willing to work on this
> package in the long term to keep it in shape for Padre.

> I can probably help with RC bug fixing, upgrading to new upstream
> versions, reviewing and applying patches, fixing trivial bugs,
> forwarding/triaging bugs, and keeping the packaging in good shape, but
> probably won't be very helpful for anything that requires a lot of
> knowledge of wxwidgets, C++, or Python, since I don't know these.

> Adeodato, may I start working and commit to the Git repository?

Please go ahead, thank you!

Regarding 7eb273055220d815c39075c8655407514b1764c2, it seems I didn't
put a rationale in the commit message, but all I can say is that I think
I produced clean packages, so I'd venture the *.mo files get cleaned in
some other way, or they don't need cleaning.

Cheers,

-- 
- Are you sure we're good?
- Always.
        -- Rory and Lorelai

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this package has been orphaned:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=539170

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Ryan Niebur
ryanryan52@gmail.com

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Debian Bug report logs - #463807 RFH: wxwidgets2.8 -- help for wxwidgets2.8 is appreciated

Debian Bug report logs - #463807
RFH: wxwidgets2.8 -- help for wxwidgets2.8 is appreciated