Mono Backports

Martin Meredith martin at sourceguru.net
Wed Jul 27 13:50:21 CDT 2005


gtk-sharp2-unstable was queued....

and on a dep-wait for mono-mcs..

Some of the mono stuff may need to be changed in breezy to have the like
Dependencies on the right version of mono stuff.

:D



Brandon Hale wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to coordinate with the Backports team to create a solid set
> of Mono backports for Hoary.
> 
> There are major changes between Mono packaging in Hoary to Breezy.
> We updated to a new major version of the core, and most file locations are
> moved back to upstream defaults (/usr/share/dotnet to /usr/lib/mono).
> 
> For this reason, it is not feasible to backport individual Mono packages
> to Hoary.  Lets do this right and work our way up the dependency chain to
> build a clean framework for Hoary.  Once we have this base we can go
> forward only pulling one package at a time.
> 
> cli-common contains debhelper scripts used by all packages.  This is
> already backported.  Next we can do Mono core (source package mono),
> followed by gtk-sharp, gtk-sharp2-unstable, and then the other bindings,
> and finally apps.
> Lets kick things off with mono and gtk-sharp and see how things go.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brandon Hale
> 
> 

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