Re: Looking for sponsor for single NMU of monotone packages

["Shaun Jackman" <sjackman@gmail.com>]

Hello Zack,

I unexpectedly have access to a Debian box all this week. I'm on
contract and have other commitments, but I should be able to upload
monotone for you at some point. My only question is whether the
unusual -0.2 version will bungle anything -- although I understand the
version number issue. In particular, how do I force a full original
source upload?

Before I upload the NMU though, do you have any interest in adopting monotone?

Cheers,
Shaun

On 7/3/07, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
> The Debian packages of monotone have not been updated in some time,
> and are currently both unbuildable and uninstallable, due to the Boost
> 1.34 transition.  I am one of the upstream developers, and use Debian
> myself; I asked the maintainer (Shaun Jackman) if he needed help and
> he said yes, would I mind just NMUing the thing?  I have done this,
> but need a sponsor for the upload (my understanding is that Shaun
> cannot do this himself).
>
> The packages are available from http://mrtock.ucsd.edu/~zack/debian/.
> They are lintian-clean except for the known upstream bug of lacking a
> manpage (work is in progress).   They close all outstanding
> non-wishlist bugs.
>
> Please be aware of two quirks.  First, to avoid collisions with the
> unofficial packages made by upstream, I gave this NMU the version
> number 0.35-0.2 instead of -0.1, but it needs a full sourceful upload
> anyway.  Second, the .changes file is labeled architecture i386 but
> includes both i386 and amd64 binary debs.  Everything is signed with
> this key:
>
> pub   1024D/797DC75F 2003-04-14
>       Key fingerprint = A29C E8FD 999C 5BB4 C446  978F 51C6 3320 797D C75F
> uid                  Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
> sub   1024g/0F4B3ED7 2003-04-14
>
> I may do this again in a week or two for the 0.36 release, depending
> when that actually happens.
>
> zw