Re: making debian packages
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
> [Charset iso-8859-2 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > I've made my own deb file with polonisation stuff for tetex. I know that
> > other people may want to use it so i think about putting it in contrib
> > directory.
>
> Why in the contrib directory? Why don't you want to become a maintainer?
>
> Only if you don't want to maintain (correct bugs found) the package
> afterwards, it should be put in non free (there are other cases, but
> I don't think they apply here). Generally, Debian isn't too keen
> on "non-maintained" packages, as they will probably have to be removed
> in the future (when we use different libs etc), and will only result
> in user-irritation in the long run.
>
> How to become a maintainer: see
>
First of all I WANT to maintain my package. But I don't have so much time
to do all the things described in debian-policy. I've made this package
and I want to share my work with others. I know that there are many
people in Poland which want to use this package (few of them already use
it as testers). Second of all my package is not so typical becouse it's
made rather as a bunch of other packages which can be found on the Net
then my own work. I've just generated all needed files from instalation
scripts in those packages and put it in right places so teTeX can use it
(naturally my work was to choose dirs, to choose files needed and to
write small debian installation script which configures teTeX to use my
package but that's all).
Becouse in tetex-pl (so it's called by me) there are 3 packages with
non-GPL licencies and the main difference is that authors want to
distribute the whole package with sources and not only separate files from
it I had to put whole packages in tetex-pl. Now I know that it can by
freely distributed (in sesn of GPL). But in fact there is no
tetex-pl-source package at all (all sources and original docs are in
tetex-pl) so as I understand I cannot put it in main distribution. It can
be freely distributed so not in non-free. So I think myself that it should
be in contrib directory.
So now you have much more information and I wait for good advise for me.
Naturally thanks all of you for making such great product as Debian
and thanks to Joost Witteveen for this message.
Leszek Gerwatowski
bigl@tg.com.pl
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