Re: User-contrib, up-to-date stable
bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) writes:
> We'd just love to have some people become Debian developers and to
> have them build updates of the packages that need updates for use
> with the stable system.
>
Well, this sounds a whole lot different! :-)
I actually understood so far that becoming a developer means to
exclusively make packages for 'unstable'. Since i was very much more
interested in focusing my efforts primarily based on the current
'stable' release regarding updates and other contributions of mine
i've seen no possibility for becoming an official maintainer so far.
> We're discouraged that we aren't getting you to do that. We'd put
> them in a special directory for the people who want that stuff, that
> would reach every one of our mirrors. We can't understand why you
> would want to upload packages to a third party site that will never
> have the full trust of Debian or its users instead of going through
> the simple procedure of becoming a Debian developer. Please
> reconsider.
>
The third party site idea was meant for uploads of libc5 'stable'
packages which are not likely to be provided officially by Debian.
But since this question seems to be resolved by official means i see
no need to furtheron pursue my former idea.
I've applied for a maintainer account two days ago and hope to upload
as soon as i'm allowed to. Still have to get the formal stuff of
authentication via a third party to resolve. I really do hate this
bureaucratic stuff BTW and yes i do know why it is necessary.
So how did you say will the "special directory for the people who want
that stuff" to be opened R.S.N. be called? I'd suggest something like
"stable-addons"!?
Thank you, P. *8^)
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