[Fluxus] debian packaging

[Dave Griffiths]

> On Nov 22, 2007 8:26 PM, Dave Griffiths <dave at pawfal.org> wrote:
>> This would be very very cool!! :)
>>
>> Thanks Artem! It's a lot to ask to become the maintainer of plt though,
>> it's a shame there isn't anyone from that community looking after it on
>> debian/ubuntu.
>
> apparently we're the only ones who really need it - at least the
> latest and greatest version.
>
> in the mean time, the packages build, both dr/mzscheme and fluxus.
>
> lintian complains a lot, it's a utility similar to lint but for debian
> packages. some interesting things it sais:
>
> W: fluxus: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/fluxus
> W: fluxus: image-file-in-usr-lib
> usr/lib/plt/collects/fluxus-0.13/material/textures/gradient.png
> W: fluxus: old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file
>
> (and many uninteresting boring ones)

These look reasonable - shame about the texture though, it's nice having a
standard set of textures installed for the examples etc. The fix is
probably to move the materials directory to /usr/share or somewhere.

> in this shape package won't be accepted into distros but we could call
> it alpha and let the brave ones test it (along with mzscheme package).

Send me the full list and I'll help deal with them.

cheers,

dave