Re: RFS: lesstif2 AND Questions about collab-maint
Hi Paul,
first of all, thanks for your work in Debian
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:57, Paul Gevers <paul@climbing.nl> wrote:
> Hi mentors and mentees,
>
> [Sorry for the long mail, there are several issues/questions.]
>
> I am looking for a thourough check of my packaging and preferably a
> sponsor for the new version 1:0.95.2-1 of my package "lesstif2" [0].
sorry, I'm short with free time now, but I'm going to aswer about collab-maint
> Lesstif2 has been moved to collab-maint [1], because the original
> maintainer, Sam Hocevar, agreed that I could co-maintain lesstif2 with
> him. However, Sam Hocevar, hasn't responded to my last e-mails about
> checking the packaging and uploading. He previously suggested mailing
> the other collab-maint people in parallel, so that they could sponsor. I
> tried the collab-maint-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org email address, but
> that doesn't exist anymore. Now I am looking for the best way to ask for
> a check of the packaging. Would anybody know the way to reach the
> collab-maint people?
I don't think contacting other people on collab-maint is the right
choice: collab-maint is a place where to collaboratively maintain
packages between more developers (but FWIW even for single-person
maintained packages) and have a common repository in the place
provided by debian for it: Alioth.
> Or is this list the most appropriate place anyway?
Yes, I think that debian-mentors is the right place to ask for such requests.
> In the latter case, do I understand correctly that mentors still want an
> upload to mentors.d.n? Just in case for the latter, I build the package
> and uploaded to m.d.n [2].
Ideally, the sponsor would take the source package uploaded to m.d.n,
build it in a clean&updated chroot (like pbuilder) and upload it
(well, there are several other checks, not worthing mention here)
without doing any modification to the source package. So, having that
already available on mentors is usually better then asking sponsor to
checkout the VCS, find somehow the tarball etc etc.
Of course, this is a per-sponsor decision :)
Cheers,
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