Well, new and interesting new from the hardy packaging front. Genpo is coming along nicely. Currently I am waiting for upstream to either fix some file licensing issues themselves or to accept the patch I sent them. A testing version of Genpo can be found in my PPA:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rexbron/ubuntu gutsy main
I have also got an ubuntufied version of OpenLibraries available for any hardy users (I just upgraded my macbook earlier today) at that same address but replacing gutsy with hardy.
OpenLibraries has proven interesting to package. All of the original debianization work was courtesy of debian-multimedia.org, for which I am much appreciative of. Beyond the general grunt work, that initial start has given me a good idea on how to approach these kinds of packages. The biggest problem with the packages current state is that, because of a dependency on libboost-python to provide the python extensions, it can only work with the version of python compiled against that. I initially tried to compile python-openlibraries against python2.4, but got some very nasty symbol mismatches.
Now hard coding a dependency on a particular version of python may not seem like a huge problem but it does fly in the face of Debian’s Python policy. I am afraid that when it comes time to submit the package to the archive, it will be rejected on those grounds, hence why I am actively looking for a way to implement it with python-central. If any python guru’s happen across this, please send me an email with your suggestions or look for rexbron on irc.freenode.net.
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