Re: 0ad backport, asking for review and upload

[Boris Pek <tehnick@debian.org>]

>>  Have you contacted with maintainer of this package? If yes, what did he say
>>  about backporting it?
>
> Yes, Francesco has contacted me prior to preparing a backport, and I'm
> fine with him backporting 0ad. I personally don't want to bother to
> maintain a backport until 0ad releases a stable "1.0" release, but if
> others would like to do so, great.

Ok.

>>  (Maintainer usually aware of developers habits about supporting builds with old
>>  versions of libraries. If upstream do not support such builds, some non-trivial
>>  patches may be required for packaging new versions of program in the future.)
>
> I don't foresee this being a problem, at least not in the near future
> (except perhaps spidermonkey/mozjs?).

Ok, will see.

>>  Are you going to maintain this package for wheezy-backports on constant basis?
>
> I'd like do so, I was already making efforts to backport 0ad for myself
> but I thought it could be useful also for other users. I take it also as
> an opportunity to learn the debian packaging system and give a hand.

Great! Both packages have been uploaded.

Thanks for your work.

Best regards,
Boris