On Tuesday 17 May 2005 12:12 am, Luk Claes wrote: > Hi Eric > > Apparantly everybody on this list is busy with the upcoming release or > is not very interested in your packages. > Yes Sarge is probably consuming most peoples time these days. We don't want anything holding that up ;-) > > Please, make sure you follow the debian-mentors FAQ [1]. It's also worth > reading Matthew Palmer's sponsering guidelines [2]. > I threw this out on the Debian Perl list just to see if anyone else was considering packaging this and/or needed the packages. While becoming a DD would be an honor, it's really too much trouble trying to break that ring of trust. I can totally understand the need for stringent requirements and I'm glad Debian maintains such high standards. I need certain things packaged regardless of wether I hold the title of "Debian Developer" or not. I've come to the realization that when I need something not in the archive I'm better off packaging it myself than submitting an RFP. I don't have months to wait for some of this stuff and my boss would just as soon use RedHat. I package this stuff so that I can use Debian at work because it makes my life easier. At any rate I offer my work to the community and they can except my help or reject it. Either way, it doesn't change what I need to do. I packaged this stuff because the staff at work was pulling hair out trying to build it from CPAN, not to try and become a DD (not that I'm disrespecting that title in anyway -- it's just not my top priority at the moment). > > > deb ftp://ftp.pagecache.org/debian/ prime contrib > > deb-src ftp://ftp.pagecache.org/debian prime contrib > > Any reason why you put them in contrib (Debian's contrib means free, but > depending on packages which are not free or not in the archive)? > Well Net::SFTP does require on several packages not in the archive. I use contib at work to mean they are packages that I "Contribute" to our setups. Just a name though and names can change ;-) Anyway, thanks for the reply. -- Eric Gaumer Debian GNU/Linux PPC egaumer@pagecache.org http://egaumer.pagecache.org PGP/GPG Key 0xF15D41E9
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