Bug#288379: I offer to look after the package for you untill you become a developer, Ian!
Jonas> You are still welcome to have me help: Make a package and put it
Jonas> public somewhere (including sources). Then we can discuss
Jonas> possible improvements and I maintain the package (with your
Jonas> changes clearly declared as coming from you, off course) until
Jonas> you can take it over yourself.
Jonas> I assume you want to adopt this package because you believe it is
Jonas> for the good of Debian users, not only to proove your packaging
Jonas> skills.
Not either, really; it is for my own benefit, since I use it (indirectly),
and I prefer having everything apt-able.
Rene> You'll help him better doing it the usual way instead of taking
Rene> over the package and make him send patches (which is in fact the
Rene> case then)...
I have already uploaded a diff and dsc:
http://primate.net/~itz/vcg_1.30debian-2.diff.gz
http://primate.net/~itz/vcg_1.30debian-2.dsc
However, Jens Secher (who had offered to sponsor me the usual way)
pointed out that the .orig tarball differs from the one listed in
the copyright file. This is not my doing; I just took the .orig
file apt-get source gave me. We (Jens, me, and previous maintainer)
had some inconclusive discussion about this, and right now I don't
know how to proceed. My indecision has only been reinforced by
the thread below (which, too, petered out in an ambiguous way):
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/01/msg00297.html
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