linuxpackages.net and droplinegnome.org

[Scott Berry]

Boy I am not sure. As for Fedora it doesn't look like they do.  They are 
talking captia on Fedora but it hasn't went too far yet.  Also there is a 
Debian packager Mario if he is on the list I would like to hear his 
experiences.

Scott

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From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:51 PM
Subject: linuxpackages.net and droplinegnome.org


> Yesterday I managed to get myself an account on droplinegnome.org I left a
> bug message since droplinegnome hasn't yet got festival where one can
> install it and use it to get orca talking. Today I managed to build the
> astrolog 5.40 package for slackware and did it correctly enough that the
> package shows up in my packages list when I install it and so far as I can
> tell the whole package works too. I just learned how to make a slackware
> package that would do that.  Unfortunately linuxpackages.net uses capsha's
> so even though I built a package I can't register and submit it. Not good
> news for anyone else in the speakup community wanting to submit a package.
> What I'm curious to know though is what the situation is with debian
> fedoraproject, gentoo, and ubuntu.  Do these sites also block totally
> blind package submitters from registering?  It was a surprise to me
> droplinegnome didn't place such an impediment in my way but I'm not going
> to hold that against them.
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