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Re: WNPP Update Package source source of gjiten



[Me]
It looks like becoming a maintainer requires 40+ hours to go through all
the "must read" articles and becoming accustomed to every procedure and
guideline.



[Andrey]
Actually, even providing a source package for a one-time upload requires
that. Becoming a maintainer requires more, and is not a one-time action.


And so my hopes of ever getting the new source in place drop away. 😅💦💦

That sounds like a very lot of time for deploying. Is there a reason for having a system that time-consuming? It feels like the deploy takes away valuable that could be spend developing... Or are you talking about the time for "first-timers"?


[Andrey]

I [...] you just want that the package in Debian uses your updated code, you don't need to (and can't) do anything in addition to [Filing the bug (#982343) on bugs.debian]


Thank you for clearing things up! 🙂


-- Chris

On 2021/10/05 18:24, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:

On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:20:11PM +0900, notebook wrote:

[Andrey Rahmatullin:]
If, on the other hand, you just want
that the package in Debian uses your updated code, you don't need to (and
can't) do anything in addition to what you already did.


Just for future reference:

"what you did" means
(1) Writing here in debian-mentors and hoping for someone to do the job?
or
(2) Filing the bug (#982343) on bugs.debian?

(2)


[Tobias Frost:]
Otherwise, we have the ITS procedure if you want to take over package maintainership:
https://wiki.debian.org/PackageSalvaging (from a very quick look at the package, it seems to be eligible for ITS)



It's not really clear to me what the result of package salvaging is. I
guess it would make me a maintainer?

Yes.


Background:
It looks like becoming a maintainer requires 40+ hours to go through all
the "must read" articles and becoming accustomed to every procedure and
guideline.

Actually, even providing a source package for a one-time upload requires
that. Becoming a maintainer requires more, and is not a one-time action.
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