Em Sex, 2005-12-30 às 14:12 +1100, skaller escreveu: > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 19:12 -0200, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: > > Even then, do you think you are ready to upload a package to the Debian > > archive? > > Mine, yes. I know more about it than anyone else
You may know about the software itself more than anyone else, but packaging skills also count here, and it is them I am referring to. > Particularly if the uploads I made went to a repository > for such MUP packages, and needed a DD to move it on It is just the same as uploading the package to your own repository and asking your sponsor to check the package and upload it for you. > -- at least > I would have more confidence everything was working when asking > for it to be moved on, and, feel less hassled about asking > for that to be done, since I'd have the lintian/autobuilder > output to verify it was clean -- at least as seen by > automated tools. I am afraid to tell you the news that you can run lintian on your packages on your own machine with a single command, and that you do not need an autobuilder to check if your build-dependencies and such are correct. Have you ever heard about pbuilder and piuparts? People who have gone through the NM process certainly have. > > Would you trust Debian enough to install it on your machine and > > any other machine that may require any degree of trust if there were > > people with upload privileges that have not had their skills checked to > > a bare minimum? > > No. So where is your brilliant idea of letting almost anyone upload packages after some minimum registration procedures? > Would you not trust my DD to check *my* skills at maintaining > a few lines of Debian packaging script which wraps > the package of which I'm the upstream author? First, decide on what your arguments are. Is it a complex package that requires a lot of work from the maintainer or are these just some few lines? You have used both in your last message. Secondly, that is exactly what a sponsored maintainer does. There are several upstream authors maintaining their packages inside Debian with the help with an experienced developer who checks the package, builds it and uploads it: it is called sponsoring. I really advise you to get to know a bit more about Debian and its internals before trying to come up with any more solutions. -- Guilherme de S. Pastore (fatalerror) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
