Le Monday 21 February 2011 16:16:05 Till Kamppeter, vous avez écrit : > Ubuntu actually syncs only packages which are in a special sync mode. > These packages are usually the ones which have no maintainer at Ubuntu > (not the case for printing-related packages) but are well maintained at > Debian. Okay, didn't know this. Thanks for the explanation. > > What about the following workflow: when a new package is about to be > > uploaded to Ubuntu's unstable (currently natty), you prepare the package > > towards unstable, with a -1 (or whatever later) Debian revision. Then > > you ping someone here on the mailing list or over IRC to do the actual > > upload (sponsoring the upload for you) towards Debian unstable. Then you > > can sync this package in Ubuntu. This way, we prepare and build the > > packages only once, instead of twice. > > > > I am almost certain that we can get you a DM status, that would allow you > > to upload those packages to Debian yourself. > > > > What do you think ? > > This would be great. If I would get Debian Maintainer status, I could > maintain the whole printing stack in Debian and put Ubuntu on auto-sync. > Then the two distros will have one unique printing stack and all > packaging which I do anyway for Ubuntu gets also into Debian. > > Till Nice ! Then I propose you the following "plan": for all future uploads you'd like to do on Ubuntu/Debian, we get in touch and coordinate a "sponsored upload" for you on the Debian side (which implies adding you as "Uploader" in debian/control, letting you prepare the debian/changelog entry and get the final source package built and uploaded by a DD (preferably member of the printing team and also in the Uploaders field). This would create you a "track record" of uploads to Debian (because although the real upload is performed by a DD, as it's your name in the debian/changelog entry, it's recorded as "yours". Then (but rather rapidly I guess), you could apply for the DM status [DM], with us advocating you. Once you get this status (aka your gpg key in the debian- maintainers keyring), we'll start adding the "DM-Upload-Allowed: yes" to packages for which you are uploader and… done. :-) How does that sound ? Ah, by the way, on a not-really-identical-but-still-related note; could you please separate your git commits between "upstream" and "master" on the foomatic- git repositories ? (aka git-import-orig $tarball ) This produces a clearer and cleaner commits history. Cheers, OdyX [DM] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer -- Didier Raboud, proud Debian Developer. CH-1020 Renens odyx@debian.org
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