Thanks for your reply Neil, El lun, 26-05-2008 a las 09:50 +0100, Neil Williams escribió: > So how often are you proposing to upload packages (or seek to upload via > a sponsor)? > Monthly? Quarterly + bug fixes ? I didn't think about it before. Quarterly seems to be a good option. > but, generally, there should be less releases of the library and more of > the application. (Libraries are always more complex to package.) You are right, I reviewed the upstream changelog and it seems to be doing changes every two or three months on gts library... and every month or on gerris. > Offer to join in upstream and take on the burden of making the upstream > releases? Not necessarily as "stable" tarballs but at least not daily > snapshots. Find out why he changed policy - it may simply be a lack of > time in which case an extra person to do that work may be the solution. Upstream contacted. Awaiting for response. > lintian isn't the be-all and end-all of Debian packaging. Have you built > any *working* packages? Well, I packaged the new version of gts library and used it with gerris (both of them, current version package and new upstream snapshot). It seems to work fine, but I need more testing. How can I know what other packages depends on my library for test them too? > A package split? Not that hard - ensure you get the Replaces: and > possibly Conflicts: correct and then move lines between foo.install and > bar.install. (You are using debhelper? If not, do so.) Thank you! I do it, and it's working now. > > Anyway, should I work in this outdated > > stable? > No. Only work with working packages - both ends. OK. I focused my work on the latest snapshots. As I said before, I tested the new package of libgts with gerris and seems to work properly, but need testing with other packages depending on gts. I'm still preparing man pages for this package. Thanks again. Ruben
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