Bug#604391: Apper status for Debian?
Hi Matthias,
As a Debian developer and KDE user who wants to convert his parents' laptop
away from Windows, I found your ITP while investigating the current state of
KDE package managers on Debian. You've already done packaging work for Apper in
(K)Ubuntu, and in fact it seems to have released in oneiric universe, which is
great. Thank you for doing this! However your Debian ITP was filed almost a
year ago and the last update to this bug in the Debian BTS was in August.
What are your plans for adapting your packaging to Debian? If you need a
sponsor for the first few uploads and until you're a DM, I'm happy to review
your work, and I'm sure that many other DDs would be too. You seem to already
be the maintainer of most PackageKit packages in Debian and applied for DM
status two months ago, so I imagine you are familiar enough with Debian Policy
and the like. If I do collaborate with you on this, I will make sure to involve
the Debian QT/KDE team so that we can pay attention to their policies and
practices as well, where relevant.
If you have decided that you don't want to maintain Apper in Debian proper, I
can take over the ITP, but I'll defer to you first. It would be quite helpful
to have a working and reasonably bug-free package manager for KDE in Wheezy,
which is currently targeted for freeze in June 2012 and then for release as
soon it is sufficiently high-quality.
Thanks again for your efforts thus far,
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
jimmy@debian.org
(I'm Hydroxide on irc.debian.org - feel free to collaborate with me there, but
still please do respond to the bug with your plans.)
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