Bug#540941: Adopting package libnjb5
On 20 May 2010 20:54, Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Pedro,
> (dropping debian-devel, not the right place to ask it, and adding the
> orphaning bug in CC)
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 22:45, Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to adopt package libnjb5, which is up for adoption due to
>> its maintainer being MIA.
>
> that's nice, thanks!
>
>> However, I'm not a DD or a DM. I've been contributing work to Debian
>> for a few months now as a member of the testing security team, but my
>> work is unimportant - I simply sort CVE's and file bug reports for
>> affected packages - and probably nobody will vouch for me.
>
> Well, don't diminish your activities at Debian: every work is
> important (even the smallest/ungrateful ones) so thanks for what you
> do!
>
>> Is there any chance a developer could "adopt" me and sign my packages?
>
> Mh, it's doesn't exactly work like this: at the beginning, you start
> taking maintenance of package, and when you need someone to upload the
> package you write to debian-mentors@lists.debian.org asking for
> sponsorship.
>
>> This is not a critical package, but some people still rely on it for
>> using their old Nomad devices (like me). There is some bugfixing to
>> due (patches are already in the bugzilla) and there is a new upstream
>> version.
>
> Are you comfortable with shared libraries management? sonames bump,
> rpath, and so on, triggers something or you don't know what they are?
> shlibs are not an easy packages to starts with.
>
> This doesn't mean to discourage you (we'd be happy to have a caring
> maintainer for each package), but only to warn you that you'll have to
> learn the debian packaging method + who to handle shlibs, and that
> means a lot, and could pose the bar too high.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
> My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
> Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
>
Thanks for the answer.
Those names do not ring a bell. But if nobody adopts it, its not going
into squeeze right?
I can start by adopting a few other packages I use, but I can also
learn quite fast.
Regards,
Pedro
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