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Testing on a Ubuntu virtual box and a cleaned out Debain box appears to install correctly. So I am really praying this time that its all good, feed back please from anyone else who can confirm its now working, thanks!

The -10 builds are still faulty, despite me testing them on debian successfully the same bug is back. Ok please bear with us during this annoying transition.

I’m getting reports that the new preinst script is returning:-

error: E: /var/cache/apt/archives/snowglobe_1.3.1-9_amd64.deb: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 10

I’ll investigate and see whats up, probably will mean a new release again for a trivial packaging issue.

The latest set of Debian and Ubuntu builds of Snowglobe are on the two apt repositories, I hope these are compliant with appropriate Linden Labs policy, it still remains to be seen if I can continue using the snowglobe name for the package, I’m not making any feature changes to the code and it is clearly identified that it is a third party build in multiple places. But LL might be really fussy about the usage of the snowglobe name.

We have been around this loop once already with the main viewer and remaining so I really hope we don’t have the entire firefox/iceweasle situation again here, I believe that having to call my package something other than snowglobe is fundamentally misleading for users as that is what you are getting.

I’m going to submit to the viewer registry as “omvviewer project”, if i can, I had a quick look at the forms for submission and they seem somewhat inappropriate for a repository based distribution system. I’m not linking to the direct binaries that is stupid, hopefully i can link to the Debian and Ubuntu download pages directly and then that provides users the information they require.

So all things considered, I’m going to push for a viewer registry entry very soon, and show some good faith despite the state of the TVP, which does seem to be getting a lot of LL attention and from the comments Soft has posted back to opensource-dev does look like its making forward progress.