On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 07:55:47PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > Incidentally, your upstream was on #debian-devel the other day, a few > hours after your ITP, asking if anyone would be interested in > packaging his software. We pointed him to your ITP, and he was a bit > surprised you hadn't contacted him. He was definitely happy that > packages were in progress, though. yup I sent him a mail just after I sent the ITP... pointing him to the preliminary package and he added the package to the download page on the mydns web site. Just a question of timing... sorry for this :( > So just a quick note to all: be sure to contact the upstream author of > people whose software you're packaging! It's the polite thing to do. > Sometimes they may not want their software to be widely distributed > until it's out of beta, or maybe they'd just like to know who's > redistributing it. yes, I completely agree with this... next time I'll send a mail to the author _before_ and not _just after_ the ITP :) -- Hélios de Creisquer <helios@balios.org>
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