Re: RFS: ceph

[Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>]

On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Paul Wise wrote:
> Upstream keeping debian/ in their tarball is no longer as problematic;
> with the dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format, dpkg-source deletes the
> debian/ dir unpacked from the upstream orig.tar.gz before extracting
> the debian.tar.gz, so the upstream debian/ dir is no longer relevant.

Good to know.  If the .deb ends up diverging from upstream at all 
(shouldn't!) I'll probably switch, as the patch approach is easier to 
manage.

> >> I'm also interested in becoming a Debian Developer.  My company, DreamHost
> >> web hosting, is a long time debian user, and we maintain a large number of
> >> packages internally that could be contributed upstream (perl modules and
> >> such).  One way or another, I'd like to see the packaging work we do
> >> internally get contributed back to the community.
> 
> For the perl modules, I'd strongly suggest the relevant persons join
> the Perl team, you'll easily find sponsors, advice, QA and shared
> maintainence there.
> 
> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup

Thanks, I'll get the appropriate people involved.

sage