Re: Debian-JP and Debian package.
From: Fabien Ninoles <fabien@va.debian.org>
Subject: Debian-JP and Debian package.
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:24:33 -0700
> However, KDrill (my package), aren't maintain and is quite a good
> programs that I would like to maintain. How can I do that?
> Make a new kanjidic package for the main distribution of debian?
> Moving the kanjidic package from Debian-JP to Debian? Uploading
> the KDrill package to Debian-JP (I'm still a beginner in Japanese,
> not even knowing how to say my age, so is quite difficult for me
> to be a Debian-JP maintainer).
We, the Debian JP Project, have a lot of packages most of which will
be contributed to the Debian Project in the future. Indeed, the more
Debian makes new releases, the more packages from Debian JP is
contributed to Debian. However, it seems a bit difficult to contribute
all of them in the near future for some reason. Some developers in the
Debian JP have no intention or feel difficulty in becoming an official
Debian developer.
So if the Japanese-related pacakges you've made is not available
neither from Debian nor Debian JP, you should contribute it to Debian,
not Debian JP. Even if you're interested in maintaining the Debian JP
packages which is not yet available from Debian, go ahead please. But
you should contact the Debian JP maintainer of the package first,
IMO. He may contribute the package to Debian himself if he's already a
official Debian developer. If not, he may decide to become a official
Debian developer to upload the package or remove the package to avoid
duplicates between Debian and Debian JP (when you become the
maintainer of the package).
> BTW, I'm running now lot of Debian-JP packages now and I'm really
> impressed by their distribution. Shouldn't they merit to have more
> of them available directly in the main sites? FreeBSD already has a
> lot of supports for internationalization, and the author of linux-
> nihongo (an excellent document about getting Japanese on Linux)
> consider Debian-JP has the most supported Japanese Distribution.
> We should be a little more proud of it and work more closely with
> them.
This may be a good idea and I'm interested in the other L10N/I18N
efforts in other countries. If any, it may be valuable to make
sections like "japanese" and so on.
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Keita Maehara <maehara@debian.or.jp>
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