From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from SMTP.EU.CITRIX.COM (smtp.ctxuk.citrix.com [62.200.22.115]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1D6810A14 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:31:59 -0400 (EDT) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.30,372,1212364800"; d="scan'208";a="1036359" Received: from lonpexchmx01.citrite.net ([10.30.224.191]) by LONPIPO01.EU.CITRIX.COM with ESMTP; 16 Jul 2008 10:31:59 +0000 Received: from implementation.famille.thibault.fr ([10.80.12.250]) by lonpexchmx01.citrite.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:31:56 +0100 Received: from samy by implementation.famille.thibault.fr with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KJ4Ie-0001Zo-Qh for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:31:56 +0200 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:31:56 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Shane's kernels Message-ID: <20080716103156.GF4715@implementation.uk.xensource.com> References: <20080714012548.GA25329@localhost.localdomain> <044701c8e5c4$c8562a60$4ba65c90@vv507j> <487B7F1F.9080206@baechler.net> <20080714203631.GA22959@clearwire.net> <20080715101624.GC12378@debian-hp.lan> <487C7DC2.90000@baechler.net> <20080715105057.GD4529@implementation.uk.xensource.com> <20080715221511.GA3618@debian-hp.lan> <20080715224909.GK4557@implementation> <20080716080217.GA4112@debian-hp.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080716080217.GA4112@debian-hp.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Jul 2008 10:31:59.0220 (UTC) FILETIME=[2D754B40:01C8E72F] X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:32:00 -0000 Daniel Dalton, le Wed 16 Jul 2008 18:02:17 +1000, a écrit : > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:49:09PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Daniel Dalton, le Wed 16 Jul 2008 08:15:11 +1000, a écrit : > > > I mentioned speechd-up inclution in debian there... and got no > > > replies... > > > > ?! I did reply. > > It didn't come through, sorry, would you mind re-sending your message? http://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2008/07/msg00001.html > > > So I guess that means my idea was rejected... > > > > Nope. As I said, it's mostly a lack of time. Mario asked several time > > for help maintaining the plethora of packages that he maintains, and got > > no answer, _that_ is the problem. > > I would be happy to help, where is a howto on creating deb packages the > debian way that will be accepted? There's plenty of doc on http://www.debian.org/devel/ > > lack of people getting involved in actually doing > > things. > > I am happy to help out, not much programming experience, but happy to > learn, and hoping to start a bit of programming... Well, for the packaging itself one usually doesn't need to program, just have to know make and learn the debian policies etc. For long-term maintaining, programming skills help to fix bugs... Samuel