Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:
> Hi Rupert,
>
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 12:00:33PM +0000, Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
>> Thank you for your reply. I'm new to (packaging for) Debian, so I'm not
>> entirely sure what this means for me.
>
> It would be a good idea to read the Debian Science policy[2] first
>
>> At the moment, there's a package
>> up on mentors.debian.net which works under pdebuild, so I'm
>> reasonably confident it should be ok...
>>
>> Do I need to do something further to hunt for a sponsor, or should I
>> hope that someone reading debian-science will want to get involved?
>
> Pushing a package to mentors usually means you are seeking for a sponsor
> and in the case of scientific software it is usually a good idea to
> contact this list (and beeing subscribed here usually helps to get some
> information which is helpful for beginners).
Dear Andreas,
I've looked through the policy link you pointed me to. If I've
understood it correctly, the things that should change in the package
are the following:
(1) Maintainer should be changed to
'debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org'
(2) Priority should be changed to 'extra'
(3) DM-Upload-Allowed should be set to 'Yes' (although I'm not a
DM, so this wouldn't help me much!)
(4) I should add myself to the uploaders field.
(Well, assuming the rest of the packaging is ok, that is!) Have I missed
anything?
I've also spent some time reading recent discussions on this list to try
to get a feel for what's going on. I'm also subscribed (or at least
reading it through gmane). I found the recent RFS regarding
python-pywcs[1] and tried to understand what I'm supposed to do re
alioth.
Since, up to now, my only contact with debian has been user and
occaisonal bug filer/closer, I'm not sure whether I qualify for an
alioth account. If I do, I'll happily sign up for one etc.
What should I be doing now? I presume that (for me) debian-science is
sort of complementary to the Debian mentors process?
Rupert
Footnotes:
[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.mentors/51927
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