Re: Questions on maintaining xeji
Etienne Millon <etienne.millon@gmail.com> wrote:
>* Daniel Martí <danielmarti.debian@gmail.com> [111122 20:40]:
>> Hello, my name is Daniel and I've recently filed an ITA against the
>> RFA bug for xeji (wnpp list). I've gone though most part of the new
>> maintainer's guide, as well as the packaging basics. I do know how
>> to make a package from scratch and build it, but I am having more
>> trouble with creating a new revision for xeji (which would close the
>> ITA bug).
>>
>> Would any of you be willing to be my mentor and guide me through
>> this? I am not looking for a teacher, but just for some specific
>> assistance and sponsorship. Any help would be very appreciated.
>
>Hello Daniel,
>
>Thanks for your interest in this package. It looks simple enough to
>be a perfect first package !
>
>The basic thing for preparing a package would be to add a new
>changelog entry, and of course fix a few things for your first
>upload. For example, you can make the package lintian clean (including
>removing some unnecessary overrides).
>
I know how I must update the changelog and the maintainer in the description (control?). Any other files I should change? Of course, I should sign it with my own key.
>You can do it "by hand" or using the dch tool (from the devscripts
>package). But the best would be to use a VCS helper such as
>git-buildpackage. The intermediate steps are not visible in the
>resulting .dsc and .debs, but it helps you remember where you were and
>allows easier collaboration (just like with source code).
>
>If you have any questions about it, feel free to ask in this thread,
>so that either me or another one can reply to them.
In fact, I do :-) What should I send to the sponsor, the .deb file or some other file?
>
>Have a nice day !
Thank you so much for your interest!
>
>--
>Etienne Millon
>
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