Re: Packaging Galois?

Hello Markus and all,

this took more time than I expected for various reasons, and I'll probably keep moving quite slowly (you know, life and all that), but I'm not giving up ;-)

I've read the Mentors FAQ, packaging tutorial and New Maintainer's Guide. I will read also Policy and Developer's Reference, but I guess now it's time to start doing some actual work.

As I understand it, I should:

- check that nobody is already working on the package (done)

- file an ITP bug

- start packaging

Correct?

Thank you

Gerardo

2018-02-09 8:44 GMT+01:00 Gerardo Ballabio <gerardo.ballabio@gmail.com>:

Thanks for your answer Markus. I will read the documents and will get back to you.

Gerardo

2018-02-08 10:33 GMT+01:00 Gerardo Ballabio <gerardo.ballabio@gmail.com>:
Hello all,

I just learned through Planet Debian that ghextris is being targeted for removal from Debian.

As a replacement, may I suggest to package my program Galois (http://www.nongnu.org/galois/) which also features hexagonal game mode as well as square, triangular and cubic, blocks of different sizes and other features that to my knowledge are unique among Tetris derivatives.

I already build and provide .deb packages but I'm not really knowledgeable about that, I read some documentation and managed to work out a procedure that produces a working package, but I'm quite sure that it isn't best packaging practice nor compliant with Debian Policy. If anyone would offer to mentor me, I am willing to work to build a package that meets the requirements for inclusion.

Thanks
Gerardo