John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> writes: > > On 03/03/2013 08:33 PM, Dirk Hohndel wrote: >> Would you consider adding one of the active contributors to Subsurface >> as a co-maintainer? This is currently a really fast moving project >> (3.0.2 will come out tonight or tomorrow, 3.1 is planned for next month) >> and it might be easier to have someone who is part of the developer team >> helping out with the packaging (this is what we are doing on several of >> the other distributions). > > If someone from the Subsurface project is actually willing to step up > and help, it would be a great idea. I highly encourage > co-maintainership, especially since help will be coming from upstream. > > I'd also be happy to review and sponsor any uploads.
We have several people who offered to step up, a couple of them are copied on this email... >> PS: would it be useful for me to include the Debian packaging files in >> the git tree? we have an ancient version under packaging/debian but I'll >> be happy to update those if you are interested. > > Well, no, I actually would not advise doing that. Debian usually prefers > doing the packaging on its own, especially since when there are > sometimes (license) issues which make the software not comply with the > DFSG (which I am not assuming in this case). We are 100% GPLv2 so I don't think this would pose a problem, but I'm fine with that and will instead remove the outdated files from the sources to avoid confusion. > A great place for maintaining the packaging for Debian is github, for > example. Well - I run my own git server at git.hohndel.org but we can use whatever works for the packaging. > In any case, I'd be happy to help with sponsoring. Thanks /D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130303115109.883220.fmu31...@air.gr8dns.org
