Re: Newbie questions on packaging opencpn
On 8/23/18 9:08 PM, Alec Leamas wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 23/08/18 20:46, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 8/23/18 8:36 PM, Alec Leamas wrote:
>>> On 23/08/18 20:33, Alec Leamas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> After some questions on devel I got a hint to contact this group about
>>>> maintenance. At this point, it really boils down to the Maintainer
>>>> fields in d/control. So, long story short, what's your thoughts about this?
>>
>> It's fine to keep it here. As mentioned before OSGeoLive still includes
>> opencpn and they take the bulk of their packages from Debian GIS.
>
>
> OK. For now, what does "keep it here" mean w r t what I write in the
> d/control Maintainer field?
Leave it as it is in git, but do replace the old uploaders with yourself:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/opencpn/blob/master/debian/control
Make sure that your work is built on top of this repository.
>> Please note that the Debian GIS team has very few active contributors,
>> so don't get the wrong impression that there are many people here to
>> co-maintain the package with you. You will be primarily responsible for
>> the package, just as you would be outside of a team.
>
> I have no illusions after taking the lirc package maintained by an empty
> group...
Kind Regards,
Bas
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