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Re: Sponsor upload request for new package scram



Hi Olzhas,

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:07:24AM -0800, Olzhas Rakhimov wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for the help and feedback.
> I have only a guest account on alioth,
> and AFAIK I would need Debian developer to let me create a project.

The *project* Debian Science exists.  Any member of the Debian Science
team can create git repositories there.  If you are not a member of
this group yet please ask for it.

Please also do a web search for "Debian Science policy" to get hints how
to do this (sorry, I'm behind a slow connection, thus only this short
hint).

> I will be mirroring the GitHub repo on alioth for packaging.
> 
> I use CMake for building. It takes only two lines with cdbs: debhelper.mk
> and cmake.mk.
> There's no other code. I am not sure how to do it without cdbs, so any
> reference would be helpful.

There are lots of examples.  Dh is similarly easy.  Others here might help.

Kind regards

    Andreas.
 
> Thanks,
> Olzhas
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 6:09 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Olzhas,
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 03:04:28PM -0800, Olzhas Rakhimov wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I am new to packaging for debian.
> > > I would appreciate any feedback and sponsorship
> > > for this package:
> > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/scram
> >
> > I have added scram to the engineering (according to your private mail -
> > no idea why you have sent it in private).  This at least fullfills one
> > condition for becoming sponsored via "Sponsering of Blends"[1] but it
> > violates condition 2. (maintained in Debian Science Vcs).  Since it has
> > several advantages to maintain Debian packages on alioth, please use
> > Debian Science git rather than Github for the packaging work.
> >
> > I did not had a deeper look (if I could clone from git.debian.org I
> > would possibly have) but seeing cdbs in Build-Dependencies might scare
> > me away as a sponsor since if all fails I need to step in with
> > maintaining the package and I'm just in the process of getting rid of
> > cdbs in all my packages ...
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> >       Andreas.
> >
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends/SoB
> >
> > --
> > http://fam-tille.de
> >
> >

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