| Issue 73: | Add debian packaging | |
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Hi. Here is a patch (in git-style) that adds Debian packaging to the project, since it is a pain to be hunting down the dependencies and so on. Who knows? Perhaps we can even have pdfsizeopt packaged in Debian, once we have, say, jbig2enc packaged. :) Please, consider applying if you think that this is worth it. Thanks, Rogério Brito.
Feb 17, 2013
Hi, Peter. On Feb 17 2013, pdfsizeopt@googlecode.com wrote: > Thank you for the patch. Added the files to the extra/debian directory. Thanks for accepting the patch. > Not adding a top-level debian directory, because I don't have a > strong opinion on how it should be packaged. Yes, keeping the packaging aside is the least controversial solution. > To be better than that, we'd need package maintainer actively and > continuously working on high quality and fresh Debian and Ubuntu packages. Regarding the packaging, it is my intention to, perhaps, maintain pdfsizeopt (once I use it myself regularly) in what you describe as "actively and countinuously working on high quality and fresh Debian and Ubuntu packages". (Having stuff in Ubuntu is usually a side-effect of having things in Debian, in my experience). I already maintain other packages and I am always looking to squeeze some bytes in (almost as) lossless compression as possible (with MP3, JPG, PNG etc. files) I would just need to decide on what to include in the package to have things working well in a Free as in Freedom distribution, since we don't have yet jbig2enc in Debian. There are other issues that I think that are needed to get the program in shape for "public consumption", which I think that I will address in other bug reports. Thanks for the feedback, BTW, Rogério Brito. |
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