Re: Bug#322282: ITP: swapspace -- Dynamic swap space manager
Scripsit Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@thaiopensource.org>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:07:44PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> You do not have to be a Debian Developer to be a maintainer. As non DD
>> you only need a DD to sponsor your uploads.
> Thanks--that sounds like exactly what we need! The code is already set
> up as a Debian native package, and even testing it would make little
> sense unless we had the packaging up to date with the source tree.
I would suggest that it is part of a sponsor's job to check that the
sponsored package is not gratuitously structured as a native package.
> Is this a recent policy change BTW?
No.
> | Now that you have tested your new package thoroughly, you will be ready
> | to start the Debian new maintainer application process, as described at
> | http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint
The New Maintainer documentation describes the sponsoring concept.
> | 8.1 Uploading to the Debian archive
> |
> | Once you become an official developer, you'll need to upload the package
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> | to the Debian archive.
> So that still assumes that you need to be a developer.
No. It says that *once* you become a developer, then you have to do
the uploading yourself. Before this happens you will have to find a
sponsor to do it, and so you don't yet need to concern youself with
direct uploads.
> Is this something that needs to be updated?
Not as far as I can see.
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