On 27 Jul 2009, at 07:37, Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch> wrote:
That's what I based the packages on (you're still listed ad the maintainer, I just made it lintian clean and upgraded the upstream version).Hello HarryI am looking for a sponsor for the package "lives" which I updated and removed lintian warnings and errors. This is not a non-maintainer upload as the upstream author Gabriel Finch <salsaman@xs4all.nl> has agreed to list me as an 'uploader' in debian/control. The original maintainer wasGürkan Sengün <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>.here's my current work: http://sid.ethz.ch/debian/lives/nyu/
I think the original maintainer Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch > is aDebian Developer as although I can't find him using db.debian.org, a random one of his packages I chose ttf-jura has been uploaded to therepository, but I can't find an RFS for it, only an ITP. Gürkan, i f youwant to upload lives that's great, but if not don't worry.i'm sorry i'm not a debian developer, but nyu is interested sponsoring thepackage (i've cc'd him): Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>.
Okay, thanks
The package requires libweed0, which is available from debian-multimedia.org (http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/l/lives/). However, onlybinary packages exist. Does this need to be uploaded before lives can (asource package would have to be made)?yes you should package libweed first into debian, otherwise lives can not go into main. only packages that work independently inside main, can be main.
Okay. I've pretty mich finished packaging libweed, but I won't be able to upload it to m.d.o until later today or (more likely) tomorrow.
Also, would a postinst script that downloaded and installed libweed0 beacceptable? If not, is it unacceptable to add an override to suppresslintian warning about symlinks to shared libraries in the main packages?no you can't do that for main packages. thanks for your work, guerkan
<snip> Thanks Harry Rickards