Re: Multiple ITP's
- To: Chris Baines <cbaines8@gmail.com>
- Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Multiple ITP's
- From: Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:45:31 +0200
- Message-id: <20100817114531.GB27014@richter>
- In-reply-to: <1281974823.3920.3.camel@chris-debian-desktop>
- References: <1281955640.3091.7.camel@chris-debian-desktop> <20100816113244.GA5418@richter> <1281974823.3920.3.camel@chris-debian-desktop>
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:07:03PM +0100, Chris Baines wrote:
> > ITPs are meant for coordinating work on packages not in the archive,
> > i.e. where there is no Maintainer (capital M) yet. If an updated
> > source package adds new binaries, there is no need for an ITP.
> By "splitting down the base package" I mean creating individual source
> packages for the component parts that build there own binary packages,
> this is because the component parts have separate version's.
If it's the same software, then it is unlikely that someone else will
want to package those separately from you (because there is already a
version in the archive), hence no need to coordinate.
Simon
Reply to: