Bug#467655: ITP: cbflib -- C library for accessing Crystallographic Binary Files

["Teemu Ikonen" <tpikonen@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Charles Plessy
<charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> wrote:
> Le Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:19:26PM +0100, Teemu Ikonen a écrit :
>  > Package: wnpp
>  > Severity: wishlist
>  > Owner: Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen@gmail.com>
>
>  >   Description     : C library for accessing Crystallographic Binary Files
>
>  Have you considered team maintainance? In the order of relevance, there
>  are three Alioth projects where you could host your packages: debichem,
>  debian-med, pkg-science.

In principle team maintenance would be great. In practice the current
efforts in alioth have some technical problems. The practice seems to
be to store only the debian dir to the version control repository, but
one usually needs to patch the upstream source, even if only the
makefiles. This then leads to storing patch stacks in the debian dir,
which is rather cumbersome (more arguments here:
http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/dpatch_dbs_etc_etc_etc_etc_considered_harmful/
)

For my packages, I try to have a version controlled debian branch at
some public location (launchpad seems to have the lowest barrier to
entry and supports a decent VCS), and will gladly give commit rights
to people who are interested in helping.

Best,

Teemu