On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 02:18:28PM +0000, Alex Papadopoulos wrote: > After having read the documentations I understood that I needed to apply as > a new maintainer (with the appropriate identification process, needing an > "advocate" Debian developper) and then find a sponsor that would accept > upload the packages for me. You don't necessarily have to apply as a new maintainer. > If these two steps are performed correctly, this means that my package will > be available on the debian repositories (on unstable, until it is > considered stable enough to "apply" for testing) ? Yes. Once your sponsor uploads your package (after it has been checked over), your package will initially appear in the unstable archive. > If this is so, what is approximatively the time between the upload of my > package by a sponsor and the actual "distribution" of my package through > debian repositories ? On first upload, a package must await some manual processing by the ftpmasters. There has been a bit of a backlog built up in this area, but at current observations packages are flowing through at a decent rate, so I wouldn't expect your package to sit in the NEW queue for more than a couple of weeks. After that, subsequent uploads of your package should appear on all mirrors in less than a day, although buildd queues might cause this to be delayed a little for some architectures. This is all a bit confusing; there has been a diagram of the way a package floats around posted here recently, do a search for debian package diagram or similar on google. Also, you might be interested in joining the debian-mentors mailing list, where basic packaging and development questions are more usually asked. - Matt
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