I was talking specifically about the oxygen package, which I think was just a deb package of generic Oxygen, done in the absence of any such thing from Syncro. Roberto says he uses it because it lets him keep his Oxygen up to date through apt, but since we don't release it in synchronization with the Syncro guys, it's presumably not much use for that purpose. Personally I'm thinking it's not really our business to maintain debian builds of Oxygen. Cheers, Martin On 15-09-24 09:35 AM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
According to http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/OXygen, the tei-oxygen Debian packages provides "automatic updates for new versions of the stylesheet library" (by which, I believe, we mean http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Tei-xsl ). --Kevin
On 9/24/15 11:28 AM, Martin Holmes wrote:
Roberto's response is interesting; I've never really understood what the TEI Oxygen package does. Does anyone know? Does it simply provide a customized version of Oxygen that incorporates TEI stuff? If so, presumably it was obsoleted when the plugin was created.
Cheers, Martin
On 15-09-24 09:23 AM, James Cummings wrote:
On 24/09/15 17:14, Martin Holmes wrote:
Does it fail because it wants a password you don't have, or because your not SR and so you don't have access to his keys? Did you su rahtz?
I had 'su rahtz' before.
If we decide to take over building of the packages and move them, there's stuff that has to be done that I don't actually understand. Existing users, who are subscribed to the repo on the Oxford server, will need to remove that repo from their sources and substitute another one. I don't know how (assuming there is a way) to make that requirement known to package users, other than crude things like making the existing repository disappear so that they get errors when they do apt-get update and go off looking for answers. There's some research and learning to do here, so I think we need a little workgroup.
Yes, luckily, the type of person who is subscribed to the teideb repository is likely to be the type of person who won't mind switching the url to a new one. But yes... I think we need a decision on: - should we be maintaining debian packages? - if so, which packages? - where should it be located?
Meanwhile, I've asked a simple question on the TEI-L list. If it turns out no-one is using the packages at all, then we might consider abandoning them.
I use them but don't need to.
-James