Re: debian and lilypond 2.12

[Gilles Filippini <gilles.filippini@free.fr>]

Hi,

Paul Wise a écrit :
> It looks like lilypond is unmaintained in Debian, so that is unlikely
> to happen until it gets a new maintainer or newly active maintainer.
> CCing the maintainer, hopefully they will respond.

It appears that lilypond is actively maintained in ubuntu[1].
I'd like to take over this package in Debian but I don't know about the
practices when a package is already maintained in Ubuntu:
* should I start from the Ubuntu source package?
* the Ubuntu lilypond release is now 2.12.1-0ubuntu1; what should be the
debian release then? 2.12.1-1?
* or simply persuade the ubuntu maintainer to package it for Debian ;)
(cc-ing him)?

Thanks in advance,

_Gilles.

[1] <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lilypond>