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Hello Tobias, thanks for put me in the right direction on this
stuff. After reading again the established process in [1], I understand that the recommended process is a bit different than for standard sponsorship requests. Probably I should send the e-mail request with debian-backports@lists.debian.org in the CC and ask for review and upload. My intention in this case is not become a maintainer but submit my icecc package backported to Jessie with the idea of to be reviewed and accepted by the current maintainers. Is this right? In other case, I think I can follow your suggestion and create a wishlist bug against icecc too but I'd prefer follow up the more standard process. Thanks in advance. [1] https://backports.debian.org/Contribute/ On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 12:34:36 +0100 Tobias Frost > Control: tags -1 wontfix > > Hi Pablo, > > mmm, a backports upload is quite special.. > > looking for your name in the usual Debian locations, (DDPO, > minechangelogs, contributors.d.o) I cannot find previous contributions > with your name on it, so I cannot recommend that you do a backports > upload as your very first contributions to Debian. (It could be that > I've missed something, just let me know in this case) > > After all, when uploading to backports you commit yourself to maintain > that package for a quite long time. See [1] for details. > > Many thanks for providing a backports pacakge. You maybe want to file > a wishlist bug against icecc to ask for an backport of it and attach > your diff as patch to it. > > Otherwise, be very welcome to contribute on other areas of Debian [2]! > Backports is just advanced stuff, but there are many other > opportunities to get you hands wet which would be more suitable. > Pointers are all those orphaned packages[3] , bugs that are tagged > newcomer [4] ... > > I'm tagging this bug "wontfix" for now. If you disagree with me on the > above, feel free to remove the tag again but please expand a bit on > my concerns and how you will adress them. > > As said, contributions are very welcome, but for backports you should > have already some Debian experience... > > -- > tobi > > > [1] https://backports.debian.org/Contribute/ > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help > [3] https://wnpp.debian.net/ > [4] https://wiki.debian.org/BTS/NewcomerTag > > -- Pablo Saavedra Rodiño psaavedra@igalia.com | Mail www.igalia.com | Web |