Re: Requests to sponsor new library packages (was: why?)
On 2009-08-19, Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk> writes:
>
>> For example, I would be very reluctant to sponsor a first package of a
>> person that was a new library without any application using it,
>> whereas a interesting kde application might easier catch my eye.
>
> That's interesting, thank you for that perspective. What do you propose,
> then, for a maintainer who wants to get a new package into Debian, but
> that package requires one or more separately-packaged libraries that
> *also* need to be sponsored into Debian before the ???interesting??? package
> can go in?
Request sponsorship together. And read up on library packaging.
Especially if this is ones first package in debian ever, you need extra
reading, as libraries can be hard.
/Sune
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