gEDA-dev: ubuntu packages

[Peter Clifton]

On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 01:11 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Hi Ales,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:13:55PM -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> > I'll add any distribution specific desktop files in the official gaf
> > releases as long as:
> > 
> > 1) it can live in a subdirectory in the source dirs, 
> > 2) they are sent to me, and 
> > 3) I'm told where and how I should package them up.
> 
> Here's the desktop file I've added in the Debian package of 1.2.0. I
> started with the Ubuntu version, but fixing it meant rewriting it
> really.

We / distros might like to consider shipping the icons produced by Tomaz
Solc:

http://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2007/04/22/T22_41_14/

(And apporpriate mime associations to make .sch +.sym files associate
with gschem, .pcb + .fp files pcb. .gbr gerbv etc..)

This is assuming the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license is
compatible with the packages (?) - but IANAL, so couldn't say.

Regards,

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Peter Clifton

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