On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 02:54:25PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:55:47PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:57:21PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 01:26:45PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > > > ... > > > That's right. Thibaut has shown very good packaging skills and I'd like > > > him to be able to upload new packages himself. > > > > Could you go into a bit more detail about what's convinced you he's > > got good packaging skills? Are there any difficult bugs you've worked > > together on, or new features he's done a good job of getting into Debian, > > or has he been particularly helpful supporting users, or...? > > Sure. Sorry that my advocation was a tad short. > > I've been sponsoring Thibaut's yorick package once 1.5 years ago. He > started by bringing the package back into a good shape. I had asked him > to find another sponsor though because I don't use the "yorick" package > myself as a user and couldn't check whether it's fully functional. Since > september 2007 we have been working together closely on a lot of changes > to his package. For example he split off arch-indepent parts into > yorick-data and yorick-dev and added a custom debhelper-ish script to > aid the installation. He knows the debhelper scripts, uses debconf > scripts, used proper linda/lintian overrides, knows the menu and desktop > policy, used proper dependencies etc. > > He also added four addon packages yorick-(gl|mpeg|yeti|z). Those > packages were all clean. I just had Thibaut check whether the > yorick-mpeg had any legal implications. He confirmed that the package is > built with a "strict" switch on so that no patent-problematic parts were > built. > > As far as I could see he dealt with reported bugs in a timely manner. I > hardly had to add anything to his work - only minor formal mistakes like > a wrong homepage (the upstream author had changed their URL) or a > non-free header file (that I didn't see either) that he fixed quickly. > He really showed a very thorough understanding of the Debian Policy that > I don't take for granted from sponsorees. > > Hope that he gets accepted. Yes, I have really written that. :) Just missed to PGP-sign the posting. (I'm on the sofa with scarlet fever... my brain is at 0.17% capacity.) Cheers Christoph -- email@christoph-haas.de www.workaround.org JID: chrish@jabber.workaround.org gpg key: 79CC6586 fingerprint: 9B26F48E6F2B0A3F7E33E6B7095E77C579CC6586
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