Re: about sponsors and maintainers
On Sunday 2 January 2000, at 0 h 12, the keyboard of tomcato@iname.com wrote:
> I have understood that persons not being a maintainer can get sponsors to
> include their debian packages into the distribution. How much work does
> a sponsor have to do for me?
Typically, 'dpkg-buildpackage' and 'dupload'.
In practice, a good sponsor will also check that the package actually works
and is clean, and explains this clearly to the maintainer (thus acting as a
tutor, not only a sponsor) but not all the sponsors have the time to do so.
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