Re: Planning on updating some dock-apps
Hello Rogério,
2009/4/24 Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>:
> I have reported, one or another bug, but they seem to have gone into the
> bit bucket, unfortunately, but I would like to do something about such
> packages.
If these packages have still a formal maintainer, you can either
propose them an updated package, so they can upload it; or else you
can convince them to orphan the package, and handle it as a QA upload
[1].
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu-qa-upload
> I was thinking of doing some uploads of them as a matter of doing some
> "quality assurance" work to Debian, so that we can have a few packages
> more or less in shape (and, also, with fewer lintian warnings/errors,
> which often indicate bugs in the packaging or in the build process).
That's always a very good things to do qa upload. You can start from
this page [2] to find orphaned or up to adoption packages you might
start work on.
[2] http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
> I would like to do that without becoming the formal maintainer of them
> (but doing something, of course). So, are there any comments on my idea?
> Would there any sponsors be interested in this QA job?
Well, upload to mentors.d.n and send a RFS here, as usual. I suggest
to write explicitly in the RFS email subject that's a QA upload.
Regards,
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