Bug#398198: A fresh package...

[Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Loic, I still don't know how to use collab, and what would have been the
> next steps...

 Did you try to look it up?  I'm surprized you didn't find any
 information.  A quick primer:
 - create an alioth account
 - request this account to be added to collab-maint (usually takes some
   hours)
 - checkout / commit in collab-maint over svn+ssh://

 You don't even need step 1 to start playing with the vala packages in
 the collab-maint SVN:
    svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/collab-maint/ext-maint/vala/trunk
    cd trunk
    svn-buildpackage

 (Just put the vala tarball in ../tarballs.)

> Mathias had also stopped working on packaging when you have pushed in on
> collab, probably for the same reason.

 I pushed it to some SCM because one of you was pushing one codebase
 while the other was giving me another and I couldn't review anything in
 this mode; at least having *one* SCM made it clear where I would get
 the changes, and both of you would easily get access.  It's really a
 common expectation that you keep your debian/ in some SCM these days,
 but if the choice of SVN or collab-maint in particular were a problem,
 you should have spoken up at that time.  I tried to help the best I
 could in the best interest of the package and of us three by doing the
 import myself instead of putting the burden on you.

> Sorry to not being as Debian fluent as you. Mathias&me would have been much
> happier if you have joined earlier to help us.

 It's not a problem to not be "Debian fluent"; I'm prepared to help you
 learn any new stuff you would need by pointing out mistakes or
 suggesting the right approach, but I do expect that you tell me when
 you meet a problem.

-- 
Loïc Minier