We need VMware packages for Fedora and Debian (was: C header files location)

[Jason Spiro]

Joseph Kubik wrote:
> I don't know of any plans to support Debian.
> Last time we tried (several years ago) the relationship did not work out well.
 >
> If the Debian community steering committee approaches our partner engineering 
> group and started the relationship again I could see VMware adding support.
> 
> If you need a contact, I can try to find out who the host OS support partner 
> contact is.

Debian is a group of numerous volunteer packagers. They don't have a 
community steering committee. Did you try discussing the issue you had 
on debian-devel?

Note, though, that Debian is fairly strict about one thing: Packages 
must conform to Debian policy, which sets out the quality criteria that 
packages must meet, relating to manpages and such things.

One option is to package for Ubuntu first, then Debian later. But my 
advice is just to write to debian-devel and find a new contact to work 
with. Two kind and friendly people from IRC #debian I know personally 
and can recommend are dondelelcaro and azeem. I can get you their email 
addresses if you want.

Also: Why is there a need to get along with your contact from a few 
years ago at Debian? You can just package the software yourself and put 
the .debs up on the web, though it's better to get them on 
ftp.debian.org if possible (acceptance there is a mark of quality.) Help 
with packaging is available on the debian-mentors and ubuntu-devel 
mailing lists and IRC channels, which are all very helpful.

Cheers,
Jason
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