Re: Question on how to ITP package not in debian but in other variant for years

[Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com>]

Dear Andrew,

Thanks for your prompting feedback!

> In the past, I have imported nat-traverse from Grml. Michal Prokop
> initially packaged it, but hasn't updated it since, even in Grml, so I
> kept the history in the changelog, updated the package and uploaded it.

Good to hear your packaging story and experience.
I'll follow your practice.

> I think you may keep the history, invite the people to (co)maintain the
> package in Debian, but anyway it should be okay to proceed with
> uploading to Debian and maintain it yourself (if you're interested).

Sure I'm interested, and good to know in this case, there's a way
called co-maintenance.
I'll try inviting upstream maintainer.

Your advice is really appreciated!

Cheers,
Roger