>"Ilya M. Slepnev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> Hi! >> I'd like to become a DD... Can anybody sponsor me? > >You might be mixing things up, or just words. To become a DD, you need >an *advocate*. To maintain packages in Debian as a non-DD, you need a >sponsor - and most people are sponsored maintainers for a while before >applying to become a DD (and often one of their sponsors is their >advocate, then).
Sorry, for little misunderstanding... Now I'm indeed seeking only a sponsor. And in future, may be, i'll ask him to become my advocate. >> So, here is a small, >> but very usefull package. You see, it is very useful for >> russian-speaking people to read documentation in their native language. >> If there is emacs-manual-ja, then why can't it be emacs-manual-ru? > >Great! I won't sponsor it, because I couldn't even read it - maybe the >debian-l10n-russian mailing list is a good place to find a sponsor. Hm. Thanks. I'll send a copy there. >> It was marked as bug #188311 in wnpp. It can be downloaded at: >> >> http://kastalia.cs.msu.su/debian/emacs-manual-ru_20.7-1_i386.deb > >You have to provide the orig.tar.gz, diff.gz and dsc files, in order to >allow possible sponsors to review the package. Surely... Thank you for this comment. Files are available at: http://kastalia.cs.msu.su/~khext/debian/emacs-manual-ru/ >> Upstream source is available at: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-doc-ru/ >> >> The package is, surely, distributed under GPL, more information about >> this wonderfull package is available at: > >This is very interesting from a legal point of view. The english Emacs >manual is under GFDL which is non-free, at least in its current >version. Do you, or does anybody know how the FSF came to allow the >translation to be licensed under GPL? There's no information on that in >the tarball. Nope. This is a documentation, version 20.7... At that time it was distributed via GPL. >Regards, Frank >--=20 >Frank Küster >Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich >Debian Developer Sincerly yours, Ilya.
