Re: need review on proposed backport for youtube-dl
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Thuban <thuban@yeuxdelibad.net> wrote:
>
> * Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org> le [03-06-2015 21:38:14 -0700]:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Thuban <thuban@yeuxdelibad.net> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I tried my first backport today on youtube-dl.
>> > Does anyone is interested to check my package [1] (.dsc:[2] ) and tell me what's the
>> > next move?
>> >
>> > [1] : http://mentors.debian.net/package/youtube-dl
>> > [2] : http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/y/youtube-dl/youtube-dl_2015.02.28-2~bpo8+1.dsc
>>
>> Your changelog entry should target jessie-backports, not jessie. (I
>> suggest using "dch --bpo" to easily create properly formatted
>> changelog entries instead of manually creating that changelog entry,
>> in case you were doing the latter.)
>>
>> The next step would be to ask for a Debian Developer to sponsor your
>> package. Please ensure that you've read the instructions at [1], and
>> are committed to maintaining the backported package for the entire
>> lifetime of jessie. That also means responding to user queries/bug
>> reports against your backported package, which are supposed to be
>> submitted via the list, so please make sure that you're subscribed to
>> debian-backports. If you're willing to do so, I can help sponsor your
>> package (but please fix your changelog entry first).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vincent
>>
>> [1] http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/
>>
>
> So, are do you agree to sponsor the package or did I left any mistake?
I can sponsor your package, no problem with that. However, it looks
like you haven't actually re-uploaded the package; d/changelog still
has "jessie" as target distribution. Please try again and re-upload to
mentors!
Regards,
Vincent
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