Re: Bug#654532: ITP: luasseq -- LuaLaTeX package for drawing spectral sequences.
Hi Rupert,
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 11:13:07PM +0000, Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
> Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:
> >
> > 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 believe not.
> 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.
Imho you qualify. Please do sign up, and commit your luasseq packaging code to
Alioth git.
> What should I be doing now? I presume that (for me) debian-science is
> sort of complementary to the Debian mentors process?
Welcome to debian-science! :)
Bye,
Joost
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