Re: RFP/RFH: Looking for a comaintainer for libaio-ocaml

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Sylvain Le Gall <gildor@debian.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On 17-02-2010, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
>>
>> I updated my libaio-ocaml bindings (svn.forge.ocamlcore.org project
>> libaio-ocaml) to use Bigarray as planed and everything seems to work
>> again. I still plan to convert to git instead of svn.
>>
>> So now I'm looking for a sponsor or comaintainer for it. Someone with
>> ocaml packaging experience as that is pretty much a mess and I could use
>> a few good pointers. The packaging used to be lintian clean but bit-rot
>> has set in. I wouldn't mind droping cdbs too.
>>
>> If you are interested you can check out a copy from svn or download the
>> source package from http://mrvn.homeip.net/libaio-ocaml/
>>
>
> I can co-maintain/package libaio-ocaml, but the best way is to remove
> the debian/ directory from upstream package. This is the usual scheme to
> allow co-maintainance inside the pkg-ocaml-maint group. 
>
> Do you agree to remove debian/ from the upstream package and transfer it
> to pkg-ocaml-maint git repository (only for the packaging part)?
>
> Since I am also member of the forge.ocamlcore.org project I can do
> everything myself, just tell me if you agree.
>
> Regards,
> Sylvain Le Gall

That is fine. I tested that split with libfuse-ocaml before (which is my
use for libaio-ocaml). I think you do not need to preserve the svn
history. Just create a fresh git repository on forge.ocamlcore.org and
dump the 0.0.1 upstream part in there.

The debian dir then would go to

    git+ssh://<user>@git.debian.org//git/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/libaio-ocaml.git

right? You don't need to keep the debian dir if you want to start the
packaging fresh. No valuable history there either.

MfG
        Goswin