= Sugar =

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== Status ==

 * Upcoming Debian 10 "Buster" will include [[https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.112|0.112]].
 * Current stable Debian 9 "Stretch" will include [[https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.110|0.110]].

== Running the Sugar interface on Debian ==

=== Installation ===

Use the following on Stretch/Buster/Bullseye/Sid to install official parts of Sugar:{{{
apt install sucrose
}}}

## currently no backports available, but expected again later...
##=== Unofficial add-ons ===
##
##The official Sid packages are also unofficially backported and made available for Squeeze (on i386 and amd64 so far), using this APT line:{{{
##deb http://debian.jones.dk/ squeeze sugar
##}}}
##
##Similarly, official packages not yet approved and released for Sid are unofficially made available (on amd64 and sometimes other archs too), using this APT line:{{{
##deb http://debian.jones.dk/ sid sugar
##}}}

== Development ==

Sugar packaging for Debian is coordinated
on the [[https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sugar-devel|mailing list]].
Code is at [[https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-sugar-team|git]].

Development status is tracked
[[https://udd.debian.org/dmd/?pkg-sugar-devel%40lists.alioth.debian.org|here]].

 * Comments or suggestions? Send a message to the list.
 * Wanna join? Register an account at Salsa and [[https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-sugar-team|join our team]].

Your participation is welcome!

=== Scripts ===

Work on improved packaging from scratch is available through these commands:

{{{
sudo apt install git-buildpackage
debcheckout sugar-base
cd sugar-base
git-buildpackage
}}}

If you have improvements to the above GIT work, then please advertise your own forked GIT repository here.

 * More [[Sugar/scripts|scripts]] to initialize a local git repo and to push it back into the master repo are available.