Arno Töll wrote: > But I miss an advocate so far, and I won't fine one, being confident in > my skills if I'm passed from one DD to another for every upload.
Absolutely, continuity of sponsor relationship is essential to DM. Although it does not need to be a long relationship; just longer than one upload is helpful, as observing someone work can give a clearer picture than looking at a snapshot of their past work. > I'm not in the position to judge this, but the DM application /seems/ to > be understand as proof the applicant "knows advanced packaging(tm)". This is entirely backwards. A DM who is not maintaining shared libraries does not need to know how to package shared libraries. A DM who is not maintaining a daemon does not need to know how to package a daemon. A DM who is not maintaining an Essential package does not need to know how to make robust Essential packages. Each NEW package a Debian Maintainer makes has to be vetted by some DD, so it's entirely fine for them to start off with only enough knowledge to maintain the single package they have in the archive. > If you don't know, who else should. :) > That's exactly the reason why I left it there from some templates I used > to use, as I couldn't proof side effects of it. Unless the template had another occurance of DH_OPTIONS that actually set some, it was wrong. Or, you removed the occurance, so don't need to export it anymore. :) -- see shy jo
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