Cool I'll join, get familiar with your source packages and help out where i can
1 2009-01-29 00:52:22
Re: Introducing the CrunchBangers Launchpad Team (53 replies, posted in News & Announcements)
2 2009-01-19 20:11:11
Re: Please make source packages available (5 replies, posted in Feedback & Suggestions)
Just had a thought, what if you put the packages under some kind of version control system. git|bzr|svn or whatever as is the common practice in Debian and Ubuntu. Tools exist to do this quite easily eg svn-buildpackage or bzr-builddeb. This would make it easier for people to contribute, as people could just do a debcheckout $package and post patches to the forum or mailing list. I'd be happy to host something like this on my svn or git server if you want
3 2008-12-20 03:34:32
Re: Use of UUID's (7 replies, posted in CrunchBang Talk)
This is an annoying thing for me too, I don't like how Ubuntu in an effort to make things easy and user-friendly sometimes throws robustness away for only marginal usability improvements. Not that i'm dissing Ubuntu but... stuff like this annoys me 
4 2008-12-18 17:53:20
Re: Please make source packages available (5 replies, posted in Feedback & Suggestions)
LP is a good service, but it lacks some features you may need at some point debian-installer component handling and new source format support being the two i can think of off the top of my head. I'd suggest reprepro + rebuildd, That also gives you the ability to do some cool stuff with reprepro's hook system rss feeds of changes stats etc. The one thing the PPAs do that can't be done otherwise is the ability to copy packages from other PPAs seamlessly which could be good for a small distro like this.
5 2008-12-18 15:32:08
Topic: Please make source packages available (5 replies, posted in Feedback & Suggestions)
I noticed that your apt archive only provides binary packages (.debs). If it not too much trouble could you also provide the corresponding source packages eg .dsc .diff.gz .orig.tar.gz.
6 2008-12-17 23:35:47
Re: CrunchBang Desktop Meta-Package (5 replies, posted in Feedback & Suggestions)
corenominal wrote:
The previous release, 8.04.02 used the same method you have described. It worked quite well, but it did lead to problems when people attempted to remove certain packages. I dropped the desktop meta package for this release in favour of installing the packages via the build script. Having said that, I will look into creating the package again as an additional option. Maybe this is something we could collaborate on? I will put some thought into the best way to collaborate on creating future packages for the distribution.
Thank you for raising this.
That is fairly easy to fix just demote all Depends to Recommends and the Ubuntu's apt should do the right thing, that is install packages without making them impossible to remove. Another way to do it is with custom tasksel data although that may require a custom debian-installer build, which is NOT easy.
7 2008-12-17 23:18:11
Topic: Hello World (3 replies, posted in Introductions)
Hi all,
I just installed CrunchBang, after listening to the Linux Outlaws review 
. Allow me to introduce, myself my name is Matt Arnold, I'm somewhat involved in Debian and to a lesser extent Ubuntu. I maintain mostly IRC related stuff as part of the Debian IRC team I am also a member of the Debian/Ubuntu Games Team (although I haven't done anything for them in months ) .
Impressive new distro you have here, better than most of the other *box based Ubuntu derivatives out there I must say and maybe just what I'm looking for. May I ask what respin utility you use? It looks like it might be remastersys, not sure.