On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 02:34 -0400, Andres Mejia wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the packages "vegastrike" and "vegastrike-data". I've enjoyed playing it from time to time, so I'm interested. But read on. > This is an update to the vegastrike and vegastrike-data package that > is already in Debian. There seems to have been some additional changes in the SVN repository on svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-games/packages/trunk/vegastrike -- would it make more sense to just point to svn tags in that repository and ask sponsors to build and upload that? I only gave it a cursory look, but there seems to be an issue with the versioning. The last version in sid is 0.4.3.debian-1, which is greater than 0.4.3-7 (the last version in SVN). So you're more or less stuck with 0.4.3.debian-N until upstream releases 0.4.4 or greater. Or are you using x.y.z-N in SVN and expect a Debian sponsor to use x.y.z.debian-N when uploading? Please mention such things when asking for a sponsor. I can't see anything inherently wrong with the package at the moment, but you have been asked some questions in http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-games-devel/2007-July/003966.html that probably need to be answered first. Among other things, the team decision seems to be to use quilt and not dpatch. > Both of these packages require the orig tarball to be uploaded again > as there needed to be fixes in the source to address some lintian > warnings and errors. It's very good to have documented the steps you took to package the upstream source from their SVN, but if possible, to ease future maintenance, it would be a good idea to write a script that automates all the steps you took, and include it in the debian directory. Of course, it'll need updating from time to time, but it would remove any ambiguity about what your orig tarball actually is meant to contain, while still allowing sponsors/uploaders to get "pristine" source from upstream. Anyway, could you clarify the work process and work with the pkg-games team -- if everyone there is busy then I suppose I could upload, but not until I know about how that team works and maintains this package. (Maybe I should join it -- have to give that some thought.) That would be good advice for any prospective sponsor, I suppose. Cheers, -- Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe@paniq.net>
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