On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:38:07AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:31:42AM +0100, Francesco Lovergine wrote: > > > > This is my proposal for an additional subsection in Debian Developers > > Reference Manual. It's not SGML clean probably, and feel free to > > modify english and formats. > > Hi, Francesco, > > Thanks for taking the initiative. > > I think it is good that you laid out the two different approaches to > sponsoring. However, the main reason for changing the maintainer > field to "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" has just been > eliminated. Now the sponsor can simply subscribe to listen to all > mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/debian-devel-announce-200201/msg00011.html > > Given that, I propose to simplify the text and just mention > one option. > > Here's my kick at the cat. > [Hope you'll forgive the lack of sgml markup.] > > I got the material from Francesco's text and the threads starting > at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200107/msg01172.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200201/msg00633.html > > > > Uploading Sponsored Packages > ---------------------------- > > By uploading a sponsored package to Debian, you are certifying that > the package meets minimum Debian standards. That implies that you > must build and test the package on your own system before uploading. > > You can not simply upload a binary .deb from the sponsoree. In fact, > you should not even accept a binary .deb file! Rather, you should ask > only for the diff file, and the location of the original source. > Download the source and apply the diff yourself. > > Do not be afraid to write the sponsoree back and point out changes > that need to be made. It often takes several rounds of back-and-forth > email before the package is in acceptable shape. Being a sponsor > means being a mentor. > > Once the package meets Debian standards, build the package and sign it > with your key. Run <tt>dpkg-buildpackage</tt> with the option > <tt>-e [EMAIL PROTECTED]</tt> to specify the key with which to sign > the package. > > The Maintainer field of the control file should list the person who > did the packaging, i.e. the sponsoree. The sponsoree will therefore > get all the BTS mail about the package. You are encouraged to keep > tabs on the package you sponsor using the Package Tracking System. > Subscribe to the package by sending mail to > <email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email> with > > subscribe <sourcepackage> > thanks > > in the body. See [fill in section] for more details about the PTS. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Comments? > > -Steve > > P.S. If this gets into the reference manual before a description > of the PTS, then you could simply reference the PTS announcement > URL I gave above. >
I think a new section about PTS could be prepared for the DD Reference Manual. Then those notes could refer to them. If it's ok for all, I could work on this and integrates your notes to the manual. -- Francesco P. Lovergine
