Debian and SimplyGNUstep

[Chad Hardin]

The burden of creating a completely new dsitro, by my self :-(, has 
become way too hard.  At the current pace it simply would never get 
done!


So, I've decided to go on a new route:

I'm gonna make it a Debian Sarge based distro.  Not a fork, just 
regular Debian with extra packages and a different install disc.  There 
already is some gnustep deb stuff, but the Debian filesystem rules 
makes it strange because the gnustep stuff get's installed in strange 
places, as many of you know.  I plan on making gnustep .deb packages 
which install in more user-friendly places, like /System, /Network, etc.

Right now I'm making a .deb called sgstep-gnustep-make, which installs 
in / and of course allows applications to be installed there too.  I'm 
thinking this is the only SGSTEp specific .dsc I'l have to make, since 
the other .dscs will build and install according to whatever makefile 
package builder's current gnustep-make has in place.

My hope is that once this is done, I can start making all kinds of 
other gnustep .dsc's which will work on both regular Debian and SGSTEP. 
 hopefully I can start maintainging a lot of Debian GNUstep stuff.


So, my question is, is this cool?  Does anybody mind me becoming a 
Debian package maintainer for most (all?) gnustep stuff out there?  I'm 
up to it.


Chad