Re: libNeXus mostly packaged
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D. wrote:
Uploaders: Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org> . Is this
correct?
No, this was just my hope when I first made the package some
time ago. But, Paul has no interest or use for the package.
Since then, Paul has gotten overworked and also
had to finish his thesis; I misunderstood the purpose of the
library when I wrote that first description and think it would be
better if a real user of the library wrote a description. Probably
somebody involved in the nuclear field I guess. I can
help with this stuff if the next maintainer wants me to.
So this seems to be a missunderstanding of the Uploaders field.
In general it is not necessary that a sponsor is mentioned in the
debian/control file. He just signs and uploads the package.
People mentioned in the Uploaders field are usually those who
do some group maintenance i.e. work actively on package
development. If I'm sponsoring packages I sometimes ask
the maintainer for adding myself to the uploaders field because
this ensures that I will find the package listed in
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=tille@debian.org
which enables me to have a quick overview about thoses packages
I'm interested in - but this is more than just a simple sponsored
upload.
I am happy to do this if I am really the best person to, but I
have never worked with a X-Ray data file yet successfully.
I think Teemu might know better how to describe it.
As I just sponsored other packages for Teemu I think this
would be a reasonable cooperation. Just come back to me if
nobody else will step up as sponsor. (I'm just sponsoring
a certain amount of packages and would like to see this
as a "backup if finding an other sponsor would fail".)
Kind regards
Andreas.
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http://fam-tille.de
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