On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 04:59:23PM +1100, Mitchell Smith wrote: > Hi list, Hi, your mailer appears to be seriously broken BTW. You should wrap lines at 70 characters or so, certainly no more than 80 :) > > I have packaged a number of packages that aren't currently in the debian distribution. > > I am in the middle of sending emails off to the authors of these packages to ask them weather it is ok to distribute the > Debian Packaged versions of there software. > > My question to this list is, if I get the go ahead from the various authors, what is the best way of getting these packages > in to Debian? The best way is to apply to become a debian maintainer. http://www.debian.org/devel/join While you are in the NM queue completing all the checks required, you may wish to look for sponsorship for your packages (again, detailed on that site). > > Also is there a way I can set up my own http / ftp site that can be used as a source for apt-get so people can install the > unofficial packages? > Yes, look at the apt-ftparchive package. > The packages I have done are as follows,. > > * imcom > * tpop3d > * vmail-mysql > * berolist > > the imcom and berolist packages are great and work perfectly out of the box. The tpop3d and vmail-mysql packages need some > work on the debconf scripts but they require very minor changes to get them working after installation. It would be useful to put these packages up on an ftpsite somewhere and then post the location (both the source packages, and the generated debs). That way people can take a look at them, and make any required comments. Cheers, Stephen
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