On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:49:31AM +0100, Andreas Marschke wrote: > On Monday 30 November 2009 00:08:20 Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > Lets say this package is maintained on Launchpad that also "maintainance" > > > for debian or would this have to be on mentors.debian.org to be a valid > > > maintainance? (Just curios as there use to be some discussion between the > > > bloggers about that some time back) > > > > Where it is maintained is irrelevant. What is important is the track > > record within Debian, and that can be seen by tools like minechangelogs > > and PTS for example. Or the handling of the bugs for this package that > > you see via our BTS. > > > But if I remember right ftp.debian.org is an official debian repository to which > only the DDs/Maintainers of a package have access to. > Doesn't that mean I cant upload packages to this repository? Are there > exceptional places on ftp.debian.org a non-maintainer can upload his packages > to without triggering the alarmbells? > If there is a documentation page I haven't yet seen please do tell. I really > really want to get packages into debian. > non-DDs must send a request to the debian-mentors mailing list with a link to their package (whether it be on mentors.debian.net or elsewhere), and ask for a DD to sponsor their package for them. A DD will then upload the package to ftp.debian.org for them. See the docs on mentors.debian.net and debian.org/devel. -- _________________________ Ryan Niebur ryanryan52@gmail.com
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