Re: packaging ocamake ...
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 12:15:01AM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> 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.
Ok, i will do it this weekend.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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