Re: Packaging VistA - next package EWD
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 09:26:02AM -0400, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> Should I first report a bug entry for the package ?
> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
>
> or should I add the files to the SVN debian-med repository first.
>
> I'm planning on adding a directory "ewd".
In addition to what Yaroslav said, I think it is not really urgent to
start filing an ITP bug. The rationale is that chances for duplicated
work (finally the sense of an ITP bug is to prevent this) are very low
in this field and making some noise on Debian Med list will probably
reach all interested people immediately.
So my *personal* policy is: Start the packaging in VCS (which is
visible to other team members anyway) and see how it works. I'm filing
the ITP bug once I'm basically done with the packaging and I can be
really sure that finishing the package will not be a problem. This can
not always be guaranteed in the beginning phase and so it sometimes
happens that ITP are rotting in BTS and nothing happens.
I'll leave the decision to you what might be the proper thing to do.
BTW, we recently had some discussion that three-letter packages /
binaries could quite easily lead to name space conflicts. I do not
see an actual problem but I'm just mentioning this.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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