README.Packagers

Notes for package maintainers
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(most of these notes have been taken from the geany (geany.org) tarball)


About this file
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The following notes are intended for package maintainers. These are not
meant as strict rules but only as hints and ideas to make a package
maintainer's life a little bit easier.
So it doesn't make much sense to include this file in any created
packages for general distribution.


Packaging hints
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In the file rednotebook/files/default.cfg you can customise some settings for
your distribution/target. Detailed descriptions can be found there.
Currently there are no such options anymore.

Please use the URL http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net for any website
information in your package.


Feedback
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If you have to modify anything to package the RedNotebook sources for your
distribution/target and these changes might be generally useful, please
report your changes to us (the RedNotebook developers) so we can apply them.
Such changes could be removing/adding any files, modifying the distutils
configuration, any modifications to some "meta" files (like
rednotebook.desktop, images/icons, ...) or even if you have to
modify the source code to fix broken compilation or something similar.
Please inform us about changes you made, so maybe you don't have to
change it again with the next release and we can fix it in RedNotebook itself
so others can also benefit from these changes.


Announce your packages
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After finishing your package creation, feel free to drop us a note. If you
wish, we can also add a link on RedNotebook's website to your package.


RedNotebook announcements
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Package maintainers are encouraged to subscribe to the Freshmeat or Sourceforge
announcements to stay informed about new releases.



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2008-2011 by Jendrik Seipp
jendrikseipp(at)web(dot)de