Re: packaging ocamake ...
Hi,
I guess I will have to take a week's vacation to read the svn
documentation. Since I don't have that time now I just created
and uploaded a new version of the ocaml-tools package that uses
our new cooperative maintenance scheme:
Maintainer: Debian OCaml Maintainers <debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org>
Uploaders: Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org>, Sven Luther
<luther@debian.org>, Jerome Marant <jerome@debian.org>, Remi Vanicat
<vanicat@debian.org>, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
The Policy Manual (section 2.3.2) says that the maintainer must be
a real person or a mailing list, so this is OK. Besides I
checked with the the tetex-base package and they use exactely the
same scheme for the maintainer and uploaders field.
You might have noticed that I was so free to put my name first in the
uploaders list. There is a reason behind this (besides my megalomania
:-) Since the Maintainer is set to the mailing list I suggest as a
convention that the "principal maintainer" of a package is listed
first in the maintainer field. That is, by default it is him who
should care for the package. If anyone else wants to work on the
package then he should send a message to our mailing list in order
to avoid double work.
> I have the intention of providing ocamake as part of debian. Strange
> wording you would say, but the problem is that ocamake is right now only
> a simple .ml file and a .html doc. It would be kind of ridiculous to
> ship a package with just it in it, but to what other package could it be
> added.
I had the intention to add ocamake to the ocaml-tools package
before uploading a new version, but then I realised that would
have to write a manpage for ocamake, and I decided to leave
this to Sven :-) So, Sven, if you wish to add ocamake to ocaml-tools
please go ahead.
Cheers -Ralf.
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