Re: Help a maintainer wanna be

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Javier Kohen <jkohen@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> I'm the author of GtkGamma (available at http://gtkgamma.sf.net/)
> and I'd like to be an official maintainer for the Debian package
> myself. I've built a binary .deb which I've uploaded to the
> project's site at SF (see above). Everything necessary to build it
> is included in the tarball.
> 
> I'd like comments on the package itself, so I can improve it before
> I start looking for a sponsor.

I think you should not make a "native" Debian package, but have a
.diff. That way, it is easier to see what has changed for the Debian
package, and it is easier to do only a "debian" or only an "upstream"
release.

        Falk