Re: New packages I'm planning to work on
|--==> Dana Olson writes:
DO> On 3/5/06, Free Ekanayaka <free@miu-ft.org> wrote:
>>|--==> Dana Olson writes:
>>
DO> Qsampler (based on the included debian/ dir from the source)
>>
>>The included debian/ dir should work fine, but just FYI:
>>
>>http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/qsampler/
>>http://archive.64studio.com/pool/main/q/qsampler/
DO> I looked at your Mentors one. It has a huge diff (the
DO> config.sub/config.guess files needn't be there). Also, the Ubuntu guys
DO> are very strict with things like debian/copyright and debian/rules,
DO> the version of debhelper, the debian/compat file, README.Debian, etc.
DO> So I had to do what they wanted, and could not just grab the one that
DO> you did. Also, your .orig.tar.gz is modified, which is why I couldn't
DO> just modify your work, and did it from scratch.
Yes, all your points are right. That's also why those packages are not
in Debian yet, I made them in hurry of other projects and need further
work.
DO> If qsampler was actually in Debian, I would've just requested a sync,
DO> but it isn't yet (not sure why).
DO> Unless Free says otherwise, I won't work on gmorgan (Free has an ITP
DO> #338691, which I based my Dapper package on, although I had to change
DO> a bunch of stuff to get it accepted).
>>
>>If you wish to maintain it for Debian as well, it's fine for me. As a
>>general rule I think we should try to maintain everything directly in
>>Debian, and let derived distributions (as Ubuntu) pull in things
>>without the need of patching them (whenever possible).
DO> I agree, but I don't run Debian (aside from on my server) so I got
DO> involved with Ubuntu, and considering I only started on Feb. 10th,
DO> there was no time to waste if I wanted Dapper to ship with anything
DO> new, considering the cutoff date was the 23rd. I don't think it would
DO> have been enough time to filter out of Debian and into Ubuntu in 13
DO> days.
No problem, even just having the *plan* to care about that is good.
Cheers,
Free
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