On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:44:36 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:21:13AM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote: >> 2013/12/16 Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]>: >> >>> Thanks for working on xbmc. BTW, Are you in touch with Andres about >> >>> that? >> >> I tried to reach him and [email protected] several times >> >> without success. >> >> Now the MIA Team is tracking him, too. >> >> Unfortunately it takes ~10 weeks to have his packages orphaned and >> >> then I can adopt and update xbmc and libcec (a dependency of xbmc). >> > >> > Are you part of XBMC-Team ? If so simply list yourself in the >> > Uploaders field. >> No, I tried to reach them several times, but none of the _Launchpad_ >> team members replied. > > That's probably a drawback of small teams and even worse small teams > maintaining their stuff somewhere else than alioth.debian.org. In > Debian Med and Debian Science we insist on having packages maintained at > alioth.debian.org and there are written policies how to maintain > packages. If I would be a member of Debian Multimedia I would insist in > some similar workflow and actively invite people to join Debian > Multimedia which gives more flexibility.
I may have misread this, but in the Multimedia team we do have such policies. Unfortunately, the current xbmc repository conflicts with such policies, as it doesn't include the upstream source. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
