Re: Questions before my first upload attempt

[Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>]

Hi Thomas,


(please open an RFS if you need a sponsor, otherwise it might be difficult
to track packages reviews and to actually have an upload)

>There will be no SONAME change as long as i am the upstream
>developer. ABI compatibility is one of the most important
>goals of my development.


this is nice to hear!
>I see Jakub Wilk and Paul Wise discussing the general
>issue. Of course i would obey an instruction to remove
>the *.a libraries from *-dev.install, if the discussion
>comes to such a conclusion.


As a man who cares about security I avoid as much as possible
the static libraries (some packages might link it static even if
they didn't know that, AFAICS there is no tool in lintian that
spots an accidentally static linked library)

but Jakub is right, the policy allows them, and Paul is also right,
we should change that part :)

so I guess right now it isn't a problem, maybe when and if the
policy will be changed it will be lintian to tell you to strip it.


>Other communities put high value on not overwriting
>the same version of a tarball or package.
>Glad to see that mentors allows it for development work.


also Debian doesn't allow that.
However mentors is not the Debian ftp-master server, so you can play
with versioning as you like, once the package is sponsored you won't be
able anymore, since nobody will be able to upload a new tarball with a different
hash and the same filename (maybe some admins can, but I guess they won't).

>He rather orphaned the packages now, to allow me to apply
>for sponsorship by others: #796145, #796146, #796147.


nice, this speeds up things


>... still waiting for my new dput -f of libburn to show up
>on the web site ... it's nearly two hours ago now.
>
>Shall i re-dput ? After what waiting time ?



when the package disappears from here [1] it should be shown on the package
page.

If not, probably your upload wasn't processed correctly, so please
reupload it.

(usually I guess the queue is processed every 10 minutes or so)


[1] ftp://mentors.debian.net/

cheers,

G.