On 09/11/11 17:05, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 13:27 +0100, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > >> I wish to take care of the aircrack-ng package if it is still possible. > > Excellent! > >> I would also like to seize this opportunity to become Debian Maintainer, >> a thing that has been in my TODO list for a long time. > > Also good :) > >> Also I would be happy of joining the Debian wireless team. > > Please register an account on alioth if you do not have one and then > click on the request to join link here: > > http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-wpa > > Mention that you plan to maintain aircrack-ng within the team in your > request and that I will sponsor you whenever needed. You may want to > help them maintain wpasupplicant and other WiFi related packages. They > use SVN and presumably svn-buildpackage so you might want to take a look > at how they do that. > >> I will be happy and thankful if you can guide me through this process. > > I would be happy to. > >> What would be the first step? > > Signal your intention to package aircrack-ng. In Debian we do this by > filing bugs against the wnpp pseudo-package. wnpp is explained here: > > http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ > > The bugs filed against wnpp can be seen here: > > http://bugs.debian.org/wnpp > http://wnpp.debian.net/ > > I would suggest you should reassign the removal bug (#642934) to the > wnpp pseudo-package, retitle it to an ITP bug and change the severity to > wishlist. You can find instructions for bug manipulation here: > > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control > > You can CC the mail changing the bug into an ITP to debian-devel so that > more folks are likely to notice and not duplicate your work. Probably > the mail should explain why you are reintroducing aircrack-ng. > >> Create a new package for aircrack-ng fixing the licensing issue? > > Take the last version of aircrack-ng that was available in Debian and > update it to an upstream VCS snapshot that fixes the licensing issue (or > just the latest one), closing the ITP bug with something like "Re-upload > to unstable (Closes: #642934)" in the debian/changelog. A second line > should say that the update fixes the licensing issue and close that bug > too. > > The last version available in Debian is available from snapshot.d.o: > > http://snapshot.debian.org/package/aircrack-ng/1%3A1.1-1.1/ > > If you are unfamiliar with Debian packaging you will want to read this: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ > > Some more links you may want to read: > > http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ > > Re-open any bugs marked as fixed in a version that ends in +rm, if you > have JavaScript turned on, click "Toggle all extra information" at the > bottom of this page, then search the page for +rm and then reopen all > those bugs and removed the +rm fixed versions using the notfixed > command. This is unfortunately necessary because ftp-master close all > the bugs when they remove a package. It would be better if debbugs knew > a package was removed and acted appropriately, but debbugs maintenance > is not as active as it used to be. Then put closes entries in > debian/changelog for any bugs that are closed by the new upstream > snapshot. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?archive=both;src=aircrack-ng > > If you have any questions, feel free to ask me directly or (preferably) > on the #debian-mentors IRC channel or debian-mentors mailing list. I > will reply as I am able and if others reply first then that works too. > > Once you have a package ready you can send an RFS to the debian-mentors > list and I will take a look at it. > > The PTS page for aircrack-ng is here, you should keep an eye on it while > you are the maintainer and look at the links there: > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/aircrack-ng.html > > Please also contact upstream to tell them you are the new maintainer and > ask them about making a new release. > Hello, I have just packaged and updated a new version of aircrack-ng based on the previous one from Adam Cécile. I uploaded it to mentors.debian.net http://mentors.debian.net/package/aircrack-ng Once it enters into debian again I would re-open the bugs that were automatically closed when the package was removed Wishing to hear any comments. Regards!
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