Hello Peter, hi everybody else, Am Mittwoch, den 01.06.2005, 14:08 +0200 schrieb Peter Van Eynde: > A message like this makes you the perfect victim :-) for my question: > what should a debian maintainer do to have his or her packages in > universe in a good shape? I'm even willing to build the packages > myself, but I fail to see how the pieces fit together. Where do > universe bugs go? Who decides which version goes into universe? What > do to with my packages that cannot be 'source only' like cmucl? Wow, that's a lot of questions at once. I want to put the highest emphasis on collaboration. COLLABORATION! :) Ideally, people should find together, form teams and discuss the appropriate packaging and consider all the problems and circumstances. An agreement should always be possible. If there's branding or distro-specific changes involved, separated patches should be no problem. Universe bugs go to http://launchpad.ubuntu.com/malone - our next-generation bug tracking tool, which will rock absolutely once it's ready and serve as a meta bugtracker, capable of watching bugs' progress in different distros. It's in development and the Ubuntu Universe component is the current stress tester. About the "source only" question, I have to pass the question to someone more experienced, I'm not quite sure, how we handle this. Matt Zimmerman maybe can answer this. > The fact that the MOTS seem to place a high importance on IRC, which I > cannot use at work, and the wiki seems a little off-putting. I think mailing should work fine, the guys on ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com will surely point you to an appropriate contact. Are there any team initiatives you (all) can think of? Have a nice day, Daniel
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